In the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 results declared on Monday, Science subject bagged the state topper position keeping Commerce and Arts as its followers.
Atul Vaibhav of Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir at Baghmara block of Dhanbad district who secured 97.8 percentage in science tops the State list.
Bokaro’s Chinmaya Vidyalaya student Umang Goyal and Ranchi’s Jawahar Vidya Mandir’s (JVM, Shyamali) Ayushi Choudhary were the Commerce and Arts State toppers with 96.8 and 95.6 percentages, respectively. Jawahar Vidya Mandir’s students have dominated the Arts scores in the entire state this time.
Marking a record in the state capital, Rachit Jalan and Sukanya Priyadarshi of Surendranath Centenary School have secured the highest percentage, that too in Science with 96.8 percentages.
Rachit is pursuing his engineering entrance exam preparation at Brother’s Academy.
Avinash Kumar of DPS Ranchi was the city commerce topper with 96.4 percentage. “City’s best schools DPS and JVM have achieved 100 percent result”, conceded a source.
Overall 82.10 students have passed from the state which is twice better than last year. As many as 87.98 per cent girls had cracked the exam keeping boys behind them with 77.78 per cent this year.
Patna CBSE zone which includes Ranchi as well states that 73.98 students have passed the class twelfth exam this year which was around 71.01 last year. This comprises 69.69 percent boys and 82.45 girls.
DPS Hehal student commits suicide
After the announcement of Class 12 results on Monday, Sadar Police station area’s Tunkitola resident Saurav Banerjee committed suicide by taking some poisonous substance. According to his friends, Saurav was upset after he did not secure passing marks in two subjects.