In the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) Class XII examination, the results of which were declared on Saturday, girls once again outshined boys with Delhi girl Sukriti Gupta from Montfort School becoming the topper by scoring 99.4 per cent with 497 marks.
Recently, Delhi’s Tina Dabi topped in UPSC 2015 exams.
Sukriti scored a perfect 100 in Physics and Chemistry and 99 each in English, Mathematics and Computer Science. She aspires to become an engineer. “I have been preparing for my engineering exams and I am going to appear in JEE advanced on Sunday,” she told The Pioneer.
At second position was Palak Goel from Tagore Public School in Kurukshetra, Haryana with 496 marks. The third position was shared by Somy Uppal from St Theresa’s Convent School in Haryana’s Karnal and Ajish Sekar from PSBB Senior Secondary School, Chennai. Both of them scored 495 marks.
“The result is good. I congratulate every student. It is the second time Tiruvannathpuram has the highest pass percentage… I hardly remember the last time when boys did better than girls. The trend remains in favour of girls,” said Rama Sharma, the public relations officer of CBSE.
The pass percentage of girls is 88.58 per cent. Boys recorded a pass percentage of 78.85 per cent.
In the differently-abled category, Mudita Jagota, a student from DAV Public School, Faridabad is the topper with 485 marks. The second and third position was bagged by Siddhartha Biswas from Kendriya Vidyalaya, RK Puram and Raskhit Malik from Amity International School, Noida.
They have scored 484 and 482 marks, respectively.
Region-wise, South India has done better than others with the overall pass percentage of Thiruvanathapuram region at 97.61 per cent being the highest followed by Chennai which has a pass percentage of 92.63.
This year there is a huge dent in the performance of private schools whose performance has got poorer by a decrease of around 10 per cent compared to last year. While last year the performance of candidates in private schools was 41.22 per cent, this year it has reduced to 32.57 per cent. In Delhi, the performance of candidates of private schools is 33.96 per cent while last year it was 38.52 per cent.
The Central Government-run Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) school students have scored a pass percentage of 95.43 per cent, much above the national average of 83.05 while the pupils of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV), which are established in rural areas, have done even better with a pass percentage of 96.73.
The pass percentage of over 1,000 KVS schools is 95.43 per cent, an improvement over the previous year’s figure of 94.72 per cent. Meanwhile, the pass percentage of the JNV students in the examinations is 96.69 per cent, a marginal decline from its 96.82 per cent figure last year. Other Government schools scored a pass percentge of 83.85 while Government-aided schools showed a 85.75 pass percentage.
Independent private schools showed a pass percentage of 82.40 which is better than their score last year of 81.08, but still behind many Government schools. According to data released by the CBSE, the performance of students in 120 foreign schools was also better than the national average, with a pass percentage of 94.43.
The overall percentage of differently-abled candidates is 84.96 and the highest pass percentage in this category is 92 per cent in Bhuvneshwar, followed by 90 per cent in Ajmer.
The CBSE would be providing digital marks sheet to students. Sharma said the initiative has been taken considering the Central Government’s dream of digital India and also considering this means is “secure”.
In all a total of 10,65,179 candidates had registered for the exam this year, a 2.38 percent increase over the number of candidates that appeared last year. In a statement released, the CBSE said for the second consecutive year, the CBSE has declared results of all 10 regions on the same day.