Students of Steel City came out with flying colours in the class 12th exams of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Celebrations started at the campuses with the declaration of CBSE results on Monday. Ayush Kumar, a student of DAV Public School emerged as the city topper with 96.8 per cent in pour science. The commerce topper in the city was Ankit Poddar of Jamshedpur Public School with 96 per cent. Simran Bhartia from DAV Public School with 94. 8 per cent stood second in commerce.
The CBSE uploaded the class XII results on its website after 12:30 pm but schools found it difficult to download the marks. It was only after 3 pm that the board uploaded results in bulk on its website. Revealing his success formula, Ayush from DAV Public School said that study on a regular basis and work regularly, for that helps ease the pressure as the exams approach. He went on to inform that he wants to become an engineer and work for development.
The performance of the CBSE schools in the city was better this year. Around 3500 students appeared from the CBSE affiliated schools from Jamshedpur this year. Both boys and girls have equally performed well in the class XII examination. A teacher of St. Mary's English High School said that the results were better as compared to last year for both boys and girls. Both girls and boys have performed equally better but the toppers list was occupied mostly by girls. Principals of various schools expressed happiness over the performance.
"We are satisfied with the results. More than 40 students in the batch scored more than 90 per cent. The CBSE results have been good in the city over the years and students have been performing quite well," said Vipin Sharma, principal, Vidya Bharati Chinmaya Vidyalaya. On the other hand Pragya Singh, principal of DAV Public School, said that it is the hard work plus passion and dedication for achieving is important.
The commerce topper of DAV school Simran too attributes her success to dedicated efforts. “Never lose focus is my success mantra. If your subjects are Maths and Economics it is much easy to score high.” Students of the city proved their merit in the CBSE examination rejoiced along with the school authorities. School campuses and cyber cafes were choc-a-bloc soon after the results got declared. Students from the city have high scoring performances in the class 12 examination.