While the girls have come out as champions in Indian School Certificate (ISC-Class XII) examination, the boys have fared better in Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE-Class X) examination in Gujarat. The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) declared the results for Class 10 and 12 on Monday. While the ICSE results recorded a pass percentage of 98.5%, 96.21% students cleared the ISC exam across the country.
The pass percentage of ICSE in Gujarat is 98.80% and the same for ISC is 96.18%. A total of 3005 students appeared for ICSE (Class X) whereas 1519 students appeared for ISC exam. While boys did better with pass percentage at 98.86 in class 10, girls did better in class 12 with pass percentage 96.35%.As per details shared by the board, a total of nine students featured in the state merit list of which four students featured in merit list of class X including one student from Anand Niketan, Ahme-dabad and five students featured in merit list of class XII.
Ananya Iyenger of Nalanda International school, Vadodara, was the state-topper for class 12 with 98.75% and Trushti Modi of SN Kansagra school, Rajkot topped class 10 with 97.2%. Swayam Das from Mumbai was the ICSE all-India topper with a score 99.4%. Seven students have topped the ISC exam with an identical score of 99.5%.
This year, the CISCE had reduced the pass percentage and hence, a student will require 33 instead of 35 per cent for passing ICSE exams and 35 instead of 40 per cent for ISC exams. "Among many recommendations made by the Inter-Board Working Group (IBWG), it was suggested that all boards in the country should have the same pass marks criteria," said Gerry Arathoon, chief executive and secretary of CISCE in an official communicated to all heads of affiliated schools in November last year. The ICSE examinations were held between February 26 and March 28, and ISC between February 7 and April 2, 2018.
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Name: Kanisha Shah
School: Anand Niketan, Satellite
Percent: 97, Grade 12
While Kanisha knew that since she worked hard she would score around 94%, she never expected 97%. Now, she now says, sacrificing on sleep and social media don’t feel like a sacrifice now. “Studying at last minute does not help. Consistency, paying attention in classroom and clearing all concepts rather than rote learning helped me score this result”, she said, who wants to either study psychology or appear for UPSC.
Name: Shraddha Prajapati
School: Anand Niketan, Shilaj
Percent: 97%, Grade 12
For Shraddha, studying Humanities was never a problem as she is fond of reading. However, taking a break from socialising was a challenge for her. A trained Bharatnatyam dancer who participated in a regional badminton competition during the academic year, she told DNA: “Many times, studying continuously will frustrate and bore a person as it did to me. However, my will helped a lot.”
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