The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Monday declared the results for Class X ICSE and Class XII ISC, with overall pass percentage of 98.51 in Class X and 96.21 per cent in Class XII. For Delhi-NCR region the pass percentage remained slightly better than the national average, with 99.11 and 97.56 pe cent for Class X and XII respectively.
In both Class X and XII girls have outperformed the boys. In Class X ICSE girls have a pass percentage of 98.95 while the boys have achieved 98.15 per cent. Similarly in Class XII ISC girls have achieved a pass percentage of 97.63 while boys 94.96 per cent.
In Delhi-NCR region also girls have performed better than their male counterparts. In Class X girls have pass percentage of 99.63 while boys have achieved a pass percentage of 98.67. Similarly in Class XII girls have outperformed boys with 98.19 pass percentage over that of boys 96.92 pe cent. Mumbai's Swayam Das of ST. Mary's ICSE School, Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai was the Class X all-India topper with a score 99.4 per cent. While seven students have topped the Class XII exam with an identical score of 99.5 percent. In class X ICSE , the Southern India has the best pass percentage i.e. 99.69 per cent followed by Western region having a pass percentage of 99.67. In India, the Southern region has the highest percentage of girls i.e. 49.96 percent, who had appeared in the examination.
Similarly for Class XII ISC also, the Southern region has the best pass percentage i.e. 98.38 per cent followed by Western region having a pass percentage of 97.22 per cent. In ISC also, the Southern region has the highest percentage of girls i.e. 51.21per cent whohad appeared in the examination.
In Delhi-NCR region for Class X Jivansh Kumar of The Shri Ram School , Gurugram and Manavi Kumar of The Shri Ram School, Aravali, Gurugram shared the top position with 98.80 percentage each. While in Class XII Antra Kapoor of Shri Ram School, Gurugram emerged as the topper with 99.25 percentage of marks.
In Delhi-NCR region for Class XII ISC, Tanushree Pendharkar of Shri Ram School Gurugram came second with 99 per cent marks. She shared the second position with Sanjana Hira of Shri Ram school of her school with same percentage of marks while third rank has fallen to Khushank Tyagi of St Mary's Academy Meerut Cantt with 98.75 percentage.
In Class X ICSE 183,387 candidates and in Class XII 80,880 candidates appeared all over India. While in Delhi-NCR region, in Class X 4,738 candidates have appeared and 2,296 in Class XII.
Class X ICSE exams were conducted at 2161 centres while 1034 centres were for Class XII ISC. In Delhi-NCR region, Class X was conducted at 47 while Class XII at 31 centres.