In the Capital, private schools outperformed Government-run and aided schools in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 results, which were declared on Saturday.
In the recently announced class 12 results, Government schools had outperformed the private ones. The Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV) and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalas have shown an excellent performance in the examination, held in March.
According to statistics released by CBSE, private schools recorded a pass percentage of 95.43 per cent while the same in Government and Government-aided schools was 89.13 and 83.56 respectively.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) are a system of alternative schools for gifted students in India and have a pass percentage of perfect 100 followed by 99.52 per cent of KVs. Schools across Delhi complained of CBSE website being down for over an hour after the results were announced even though it was restored later.
While the overall pass percentage of the differently abled students is 95.19, the pass percentage for this category in Delhi is 90.44 per cent.
Some of the schools in the city have performed good as well. In Amity International School, Noida, 278 students have scored a 10 CGPA while in its Mayur Vihar campus 78 students have scored a 10 CGPA. Anand Jha with a “special need” from Amity International School, sector I Vasundhrara has scored a 7.8 CGPA. From the EWS category also, Sona Azam, a student from the school’s Pushp Vihar campus has scored a 9 CGPA. In RD Public School has also performed well with a 100 per cent result in the CBSE class 10 examination . Simran of RD Public School also scored 9.2 CGPA.