Anaqat Kamboj of Sri Ram School, Gurgaon tops region scoring 98.25%
Results of the Indian Secondary Certificate Examination (ISC) 2014 were declared on Saturday. Anaqat Kamboj of Sri Ram School Aravali and Shivam Garg of St Joseph’s Academy, Ghaziabad topped in the National Capital Region with 98.25 per cent. While expressing her pleasure, beaming Anaqat said she had not expected more than 97 per cent. “My aim was to get at least 97 per cent but I was trying to tell myself to be alright if I get lesser. I never thought that I would end up topping in my region,” she said. Anaqat is from the Commerce stream and wishes to pursue a career in it. She further said, “I want to do Economic Honours from the Delhi University. I have strived hard to prepare for the exam throughout the year.”
A total of 18 schools in Delhi NCR are affiliated with ISC from which 1,080 candidates appeared for the examinations. While the pass percentage in this region was 97.41 per cent, the girls performed better than the boys. According to Secretary of the Council Gerry Arathoon, 555 boys and 525 girls appeared from Delhi NCR of which 18 boys were unsuccessful in clearing the examination as opposed to only 10 girls.
The passing percentage of the Board in the country was 95.27 per cent which is an up from last year by 0.12 per cent. The girls have done better than the boys nationally as well by 2.4 per cent as they attained a pass percentage of 96.58 per cent.
Meanwhile, the website of council crashed within a few minutes after releasing the results for Class XII. Only a handful of students knew their results while schools were struggling to even log into the website. The Council released the ISC result at 3 pm. Issue seemed to persist as until late hours in the evening, there was no sign of the result coming out. The Council had also integrated their system with mobile networks which were sending the results to SMS. In fact, the only students who received their results on Saturday were through SMS.