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The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) today declared results for the Class 12 and Class 10 exams with girls once again bettering boys in overall scores and 64 students getting more than 99 per cent.
Updated : May 14, 2018, 09:44 PM IST
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) today declared results for the Class 12 and Class 10 exams with girls once again bettering boys in overall scores and 64 students getting more than 99 per cent.
49 students got more than 99 per cent in the Class 12 exam. Last year, 10 students had scored more than 99% in Class 10.
This year, the top score of 99.5 per cent in class 12 was bagged by seven students from across the country. The second position of 99.25 per cent was shared by 17 students. The third highest score was 99 per cent, bagged by 25 people.
"Class 12 saw a pass percentage of 96.21 recording a slight dip from last year's 96.47 per cent, while 98.51 per cent students passed Class 10," said Gerry Arathoon, CEO of the Council.
"We did not follow any moderation policy. Also, there was no spiking of marks. Despite that the number of students scoring above 99 per cent has increased this year," he told reporters.
A total of 1,83,387 students from 2,161 schools had appeared for the Class 10 examination, which was conducted in 61 written subjects. Of these, 22 were Indian languages, 10 foreign languages and one classical language.
In Class 12, 80,880 students from 1,034 schools appeared for the exam, which was conducted in 48 written subjects. Of these, 14 were Indian languages, five foreign languages and two classical languages
Following are the names of the top three rank holders in ICSE Class 12 examination:
First rank (99.5 per cent)
1. Abhijnan Chakraborty, Mumbai
2. Radhika Chandra, Lucknow
3. Saman Waheed, Lucknow
4. Sakshi Pradyumn, Lucknow
5. Lipika Agrwal, Lakhimpur Kheri
6. Koushiki Dasgupta Chaudhuri, Kolkata
7. Tansa Kartik Shah, Mumbai
Second rank (99.25 per cent)
1. S Aditya Krishna, Kottayam
2. Kushagra Agarwal, Kanpur
3. Sanjeevani Hajra, Lucknow
4. Meenakshi, Bhagalpur
5. Aakansha Rai, Dubai
6. Nidhi Priya, Lucknow
7. Jaydeep Basu, Barrackpore
8. Antra Kapoor, Gurugram
9. Mansi Acharya, Lucknow
10. Rishav Jalan, Howrah
11. Abhishek Agarwal, Jamshedpur
12. Priya Khajanchi, Mumbai
13. Fiza Khan, Lucknow
14. Rakshita K Deshmukh, Mumbai
15. Ritisha Gupta, Pune
16. Tamanna Dahiya, Dehradun
17. Asmita Sarkar, Kolkata
Third rank (99 per cent)
1. Muskan Tandon, Lucknow
2. Ibrahim Kamal, Lucknow
3. Shaswat Kumar, Lucknow
4. Ashutosh Synghal, Lucknow
5. Swasti Arya, Lucknow
6. Saumya Shikhar Mishra, Lucknow
7. Utkarsh Nigam, Lucknow
8. Sanyukta Giri, Bengaluru
9. Lekshmi S Sunil, Thiruvananthapuram
10. Vishal Dixit, Kanpur
11. Simran Avinash Somalinga, Chennai
12. Adittya Pal. Kolkata
13. Era Gupta, Bengaluru
14. Shreshtha Gupta, Lucknow
15. Sumedha Ghosh, Kolkata
16. Akanksha Gupta, Mumbai
17. Bhagyashree, Lucknow
18. Aman Choudhury, Siliguri
19. Rewati Bharat Shitole, Thane
20. Aryaman Jain, Kolkata
21. Isha Bhasin, Lucknow
22. Divisha Jaiswal, Kolkata
23. Tanushree Pendharkar, Gurugram
24. Sanjana Hira, Gurugram
25. Aanandi Arjun, Lucknow GJS GVS