The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) XII result on Monday, brought a cheer across the Capital with 86 per cent students clearing them. Once again girls outshined boys by scoring a higher pass percentage with 91.4 per cent than boys with 82.4 per cent. In Delhi, Government schools too have shown a better performance as compared to the other States.
Paras Sharma of lancer Convent Senior Secondary School in Outer Delhi's Rohini topped the exams all over India scoring 99 per cent in Commerce stream.
He stands with another topper Sopan Khosla of Science stream from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh with an exact score of 99 per cent. As usual, private schools have done better than the Government schools.
lata Vaidyanathan the Principal of Modern School, Barakhamba Road said that the results are excellent and everybody from teachers to students has worked hard for this outstanding score.
"I feel on top of the world. It is a clear indication of academics, co-curricular activities and sports can co-exist and bring out the best from our future generations. The results are absolutely great," she added.
Modern School has scored 100 per cent of pass percentage with the topper Bhavya Aggarwal of Commerce stream setting a score of 98.4 percent. The second topper is Priyanka Bhagharia with 98.2 per cent and the third topper Shagoon Malhotra scoring a high at 98 per cent.
As the most famous private schools of the city have 100 per cent results out for this year also, some of the statistics sketch out the details of the toppers.
The Delhi Public School, RK Puram had a total number of 970 students appearing in the examination who all stood pass with 936 having a first division and 835 scoring above 75 per cent and 461 having 90 per cent and above.
Medhavi Malik from the Commerce background has a highest score of 98 per cent, Vidit Bhargav with 97 per cent and three other Shantanu Kumar, Syed Yusuf Raza, Ningthoujam Rishikant Singh with 97.4 per cent.
Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri also has a 100 per cent results with 221 students appearing and passing with the highest percentage of 97.4 per cent scored by three students — Aradhana Gupta of Commerce, Roma Dixshit of Humanities and Pratyush Panday of Science stream.
The Amity International School, Noida with 359 students appearing in the examination has clear results for the whole number. The first topper has scored 96 per cent with
Mehak Sharma of the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan has scored a total 477 out of 500 topping the list among the Special Candidates category in the city.
"She has not topped at this level but also stands among the toppers of our Commerce students. She is a wonderful student and has managed well in all accords in the school. I would be proud to say that she is agood golfer also," said Mridula Pant, the principalof the school.