With a pass percentage of 92.6%, Chennai region has secured second place in the Class XII Board examinations of the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE), the results of which were declared on Sunday.
The Chennai region includes students from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu.
Chennai has secured the second place behind Trivandrum region in the Class XII board examinations.
In 2016, Tamil Nadu alone had over 13,000 students from 225 CBSE schools taking up the board exams across the State, and a pass percentage of 96.73 was recorded.
M.V. Dharshana, a student of the Nalanda International Public School Krishnagiri, secured the third position in the country in the differently-abled students category with a total of 483 marks out of 500.
Across the country, nearly 63,247 students scored above 90 % and 10,091 students scored above 95 %.
In Chennai, most schools said that students from the Commerce group were the school toppers. “We have nearly seven students who scored centums in Economics and Marketing and students with the first three overall marks are from the Commerce group as well. For the last three years, Commerce students have been performing better in the boards,” said Ajeeth Prasad Jain, senior principal, Bhavan’s Rajaji Vidyashram.
A principal from a city school said that the relatively good score in the Commerce subjects had given the CBSE students a reason to cheer. “There had been a large number of centums in the Economics, Business Mathematics and Accountancy in the state board results and the cut-offs will definitely be high, making admissions extremely competitive,” she noted.
While Mathematics proved to be an extremely tough paper for students in 2016, the paper this year was less challenging and the marks were satisfactory, said students.
G. Benita, a Commerce student of SBOA school and Junior College, who scored 490 marks, said that she and her peers had scored well in Mathematics. “We were worried after what the students went through last year, but most of us have scored good marks,” she said.
For students in Tamil Nadu, it had been a tense wait as the State board results for the Class XII exams were announced earlier on May 12.
Admissions on
With the CBSE class 12 results announced on Sunday, students are getting ready to kick-start admission processes in various colleges.
The delay in the announcement of results this year has been attributed to a legal tussle the board has been embroiled with regard to the policy of moderation of marks.
As soon as the Plus Two results of the State board here were announced earlier this month, many arts and science colleges in the city began online registration for admissions.
“There is always a gap of over 10 days between the results of the two boards but the State board results came earlier than expected this year. While we know that colleges will wait for the CBSE students before closing the admissions process, the wait has been very tense for us,” said S. Ranjani, a Class XII Commerce student.
A representative from a leading arts college in the city said that CBSE students would be given three days after their results were published to apply for admissions. “Only then will the college take everything into consideration and put out a merit list. We have been assuring worried parents of CBSE students who have been contacting us,” he said.
Many institutions and students have, however, been voicing the need for the CBSE to announce the results earlier at least next year. P. Ashok Shankar, secretary of the CBSE Schools Management Association (CSMA), said that they had submitted representations to the MHRD for the last few years, urging that the results be declared sooner.
“This year, students weren’t even aware when the results would be announced till Friday and this makes it tough for them to seek admissions in colleges. We will soon be approaching the CBSE chairman and other officials this year as well and represent the concerns of the students,” Mr. Shankar said.
