Girls have once again outperformed boys in the Class XII Indian School Certificate (ISC) examination and the Class X Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), the results of which were announced on Friday.
Mumbai’s Aadyaa Maddi topped the Class XII exam, while Abineeth Parichha, from Odisha, topped the Class X exam, and Bengaluru’s Sudarshan R stood second, a spot he shared with three others.
Aadyaa, a student of Lilavatibai Podar High School, scored 99.75% by securing 399 marks, closely followed by Mumbai’s Jamnabai Narsee School student Mansi Puggal at 99.50% by scoring 398 marks.
Toppers list
Arkadeb Sengupta of Don Bosco School and Kavita Desai of Bhawanipur Gujrati Education Society school, both Kolkata, shared the third slot for scoring 99.25% by securing 397 marks. Abineeth, from Little Flower School in Bolangir, scored 99.2% by securing 496 marks.
Sudarshan of Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Isha Sethi of Mumbai’s Hiranandani Foundation School, Manan Manish Shah from Children’s Academy in Mumbai, and Jyotsna Srivastava of City Montessori School Inter-College Lucknow all stood second by securing a total of 495 marks (99%).
While the pass percentage of students in Class XII board examinations reached 96.46% this year, up by 0.18% from that of last year, the percentage of Class X board students clearing the examination stood at 98.50%, up by 0.01% from the last year’s figures.
Schools affiliated to the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) in the southern region recorded the highest pass percentage in Class XII and Class X exams.
While the pass percentage of Class XII students in the southern region was 99.14%, the pass percentage of students from the western region was pegged at 97.59%, followed by the northern region at 96.36% and the eastern region at 95.90.%
In the Class X exam, the southern region schools recorded 99.68% pass percentage followed by the western region at 99.57%, eastern region 98.30% and northern region 97.70%, the council stated.
All students who appeared in both the exams in centres’ abroad have been successful.
A total of 72,069 students, including 33,235 girls, appeared in the Class XII exam, while more than 1.68 lakh students, comprising 75,691 girls, took the Class X exam. A total of 13 of 126 students with dyslexia secured over 90% marks in Class XII exam, one out of three visually-challenged students scored over 90% marks and one of the three special students who took the examination from an hospital secured more than 90% marks.
Among the special students securing more than 90% marks in Class X exams, 96 suffer from dyslexia and 10 are visually challenged.
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