The Indian Council of Secondary Examination (ICSE) and Indian School Certificate Examination (ISC) results were declared on Monday wherein city students performed well. Most of the schools across the State reported the maximum percentage beyond 95 per cent.
Sacred Heart School student Shruti Kumari was the State as well as city topper in the ICSE tenth examination with 98.8 per cent. Notably, there are around 15 ICSE schools till class tenth in the state capital. For ISC there are around three schools.
As many as 90 schools in the state are affiliated to ICSE and about 60 are affiliated under ISC.
Aishwarya Thakur, Tanu Jha and Prachi Kumari were the city toppers in ISC (class twelfth) Commerce, Arts and Science respectively, while Simran Kejriwal, a student of Carmel School at Dhanbad bagged the third position in All India ISC Commerce result.
Among the prominent schools of the city including loreto, St Thomas School, St Francis, Bishop Westcott (Girls and Boys) and St Anthony’s School, most of the schools reported that the highest score of the toppers was above 95 per cent.
Romit Rana was the topper of St Thomas School with 97.60 per cent. Anurupa Chattopadhyay was the topper of loreto Convent with 98 percent. Her twin sister Aparupa was the second topper with 97.80 percent.
Saurav Kumar was the topper of Bishop Westcott Girl’s School with 97 percent. Rewa Pandey and Komal Singhal were the toppers of Bishop Westcott Girls School with 97.2 per cent.
Notably, as many as 10,000 students appeared in class tenth across the state of which 4000 appeared from the state capital. In class twelfth, around 4000 appeared in the state of which 1000 were from the city.
Simran who bagged the third All India rank said she is happy that the success rate of Jharkhand was comparatively better than last year. Asked about her aspirations, she said she is mulling to do under graduation in Commerce from Sriram College of Commerce (Delhi University) and become a CA as well as IAS officer.