HYDERABAD: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 results brought cheer to majority of students as many managed to secure more than 90% marks in the exam, results of which were released on Friday.
Many schools in the city have students who scored over 95%. Chennai region, which also includes schools from Telangana, secured third position with a pass percentage of 99.77%. While the overall pass percentage is 99.37%, Trivandurum and Bengaluru regions were placed at first and second positions with a pass percentage of 99.89% and 99.83%, respectively.
“Of the total 136 students, 61 students scored over 95% and 58 students scored in a range of 90 to 94%,” said Smitha Govind, principal, Army Public School, Bolarum. She said Saanya Punjkaran from the humanities stream secured 98.6%, followed closely by Riya Sur who scored 98.2 % in the science stream, and Mahek Gupta from commerce stream with 97.8 %.
Likewise, of the 77 students who registered for the CBSE class 12 exam from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Public School (Vidyashram), Jubilee Hills, 34% of students secured 90% and above. Several students, including Hitisha Jain from the commerce stream and Nellore Dharshita from the science stream secured over 95% marks, said G Arunasree, principal of the school.
According to the figures released by the CBSE, as many as 70, 004 students secured 95% and above marks across India when compared with 38, 686 students in the last academic year. However, when it came to students securing above 90% and below 95%, there was a slight decrease as 1, 50, 152 from the country secured more than 90% marks as against 1, 57, 934 in 2020. Schools admitted that average students benefited the most as many who had not performed well as compared to reference year had an advantage as schools awarded them more marks to fit them in a particular range.
The CBSE also announced that the results of 1,060 new schools are still under process as there was no reference year. The results of about 60, 000 students from these schools are expected to be released within a week’s time. Results of students were prepared by considering 40% marks of class 12 based on unit test/mid-term/pre-board exam, 30% each of class 11theory-based component and class 10 marks based on average theory component of best of three performing subjects. Further, schools were asked to consider one of the last three academic years, best performing year, as a reference year to award marks.
