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Delhi improves performance

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Govt. schools continue their good showing in Class XII exams

Photo: V. Sudershan

Picture of joy: Class XII students celebrating the CBSE results at St Thomas School in New Delhi on Friday.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi region has achieved an overall pass percentage of 83.69 this year compared to 81.93 in 2007, an increase of 1.76 pass percentage points, in the Class XII Central Board of Secondary Education examinations, the results of which were declared here on Friday.

As many as 160,414 candidates from Delhi appeared for the exams. Just like last year, the girls have outperformed the boys registering a pass percentage of 86.93, slightly improving over last year’s 85.88.

The boys have attained a pass percentage of 80.65 this year.

The students from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas have passed with flying colours, their pass percentage standing tall at an excellent 97.69 per cent, doing marginally better than last year’s 96.97 per cent.

However, even though Kendriya Vidyalayas proved to be the second best in the Delhi region, the pass percentage has slipped from 93.03 per cent in 2007 to 89.33 this year.

The result of the independent schools has also fallen to 87.81 per cent this year from 88.39 in 2007.

The pass percentage of private schools has also fallen from 41.50 per cent last year to 39.44 per cent in 2008.

“This could be attributed to the change in the typology of questions. We changed the pattern from testing ‘More Of The Same’ (MOTS), which was based on repetition and stereotypes to ‘Higher Order Thinking Skills’ (HOTS) that emphasise interpretation and synthesis of knowledge. But at the same time, the mean of every subject has increased. We feel that this is a step in the right direction since our students should fit into the demands of the 21st Century,” said CBSE Chairman Ashok Ganguly at a press conference on Friday.

Meanwhile, the Government Schools and the Government-aided schools have continued with their first-rate performance this year as well scoring pass percentages of 85.70 and 78.61 respectively. This has risen from 82.71 and 75.93 per cent respectively in 2007.

As many as 2,266 students in the Delhi region, including 1,197 girls, have secured more than 90 per cent this year. Ninety-two candidates, including one boy from a Delhi Government school, have attained more than 95 per cent in 2008, of which 50 are girls.

Among the 90 per cent scorers in the Capital, 44 are from Government schools and 34 from Government-aided schools.

Merit certificates will be awarded to 969 students from the Delhi region, including 98 candidates from Government Schools and 18 from Government-aided schools -- an indicator of the excellent performance of these schools.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit congratulated the students, teachers and parents on the improvement in the Class XII results of the Government schools. At a press conference, she lauded the efforts of the Department of Education for its “untiring efforts” in bringing about improvement and imparting quality education in Government Schools.

The pass percentage of Government schools in Class XII in 1997-98 was 63.50 per cent which this year has jumped to 85.70.

Of the 344 students who scored a perfect 100 in Mathematics, 105 are from Delhi. Only four students across India, including a Delhi boy, obtained cent per cent marks in the Physics paper, which the students had found “extremely tricky”.

The number of candidates in the Delhi region placed in compartment this year has also come down from 16,925 in 2007 to 16,134.

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