Chennai Region Tops Again in CBSE XII Results

Chennai Region Tops Again in CBSE XII Results

For fifth time in row; overall increase of 1.09 pass percentage points

New Delhi: For the fifth successive year, the Chennai region, with a whopping 91.39 pass percentage, has retained its top position in the Central Board of Secondary Education's Class XII examinations.

There has been an overall increase of 1.09 pass percentage points from 79.55 per cent last year to 80.64 per cent this year, with girls outshining boys once again.

The overall pass percentage of girls was 85.02, compared to 77.37 by boys. Girls have also outdone boys in all six regions — Ajmer, Panchkula, Delhi, Guwahati, Chennai and Allahabad.

Girls do Better:

"Girls have done better than boys. The total number of girls who have scored more than 60 per cent marks and above is 1,32,215. It proves that they are more focussed than boys," said CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly on Friday after declaring the results for Delhi, Guwahati, Panchkula and Allahabad.

The results for Ajmer and Chennai were declared on Wednesday. In all 5,03,161 candidates registered for the examinations this year, an increase of about 10.71 per cent over last year.

"The overall pass percentage has been good. The pass percentage of regular students is 82.90 and that of private candidates 40.68. The good results are due to the steps introduced in the past two years. The additional 15-minute "cool off" time played a great role in relaxing the students," Mr. Ganguly said.

Question Paper Design:

"We had designed the question papers in such a way that any average student would be able to finish the exam in two-and-half hours. Increasing the number of pages in the main answer books from 40 to 48 also helped the students. They no longer had to waste time in handling supplementary sheets and could concentrate on answers. These measures created the necessary ambience," he said.

The Chennai region is followed by Ajmer, Panchkula and Delhi.

The pass percentage of candidates from Kendriya Vidyalayas was the highest among other institutions and it stood at 93.14 per cent, compared to 92.89 per cent in 2006. The Government schools have improved their performance and moved from 75.23 per cent last year to 78.59 in 2007.

In the case of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, the pass percentage has declined slightly this year to 90.11 from 90.24 in 2006. It was the same in the case of Government-aided schools, independent schools and Central Tibetans, whose pass percentage stood at 75.93, 82.29 and 86.24, compared to last year's 76.57, 82.35 and 90.57 respectively.

Candidates from the Gulf countries and foreign nations have achieved a pass percentage of 93.29 and 92.96 respectively.

There has also been an increase in merit certificates — given to the top 0.1 per cent of students — this year. Compared to 3,580 merit certificates issued last year, the total number has seen a good rise of 4,504 in 2007.

The most number of merit certificates are for the candidates from independent and private schools, followed by 426 from Kendriya Vidyalayas and 196 from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.

Interestingly, 184 merit certificates will go to students belonging to the Government schools.

As many as 514 students — 282 girls and 232 boys — have made it to the 95 per cent and above bracket, while 8,120 candidates — including 4,203 girls and 3,917 boys — have secured 90 per cent and above marks. This number has risen in both the categories from 315 and 5,412 respectively. The highest number of students in both the 95 and 90 per cent and above category is from Chennai.

The Board said 1,146 students had scored cent per cent marks in Mathematics, followed by 435 candidates in English. The result for the Commerce students has also been good. In Accounts, 69 and in Economics, 22 students had scored a perfect 100.

Paradigm Shift:

"There has been a general paradigm shift. The meritorious students have been shifting to the Commerce stream now," Mr. Ganguly said. The number of merit certificates issued for Economics, Accountancy and Business Studies this year was 474, 416 and 156 respectively.

The pass percentage of disabled students was 80.57. As many as six out of the 834 candidates who appeared in this category had secured more than 90 per cent marks.

Chennai Region Tops Again in CBSE XII Results

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