A long, and for some, an arduous wait, finally ended on Monday when they anxiously keyed in their seven-digit register number and saw the outcome of their last school examination finally flash on their screens.
As soon as the CBSE Class XII results of the Chennai and Trivandrum region were announced on Monday afternoon, the scramble in the city was to zero in on the city ranker.
However, CBSE Regional Officer D.T. Sudharsan Rao reiterated that the CBSE does not release an official rank list.
A few hours after the results, the highest known score in the city was 493 out of 500. Akshay Aravindan, a student of PSBB Nungambakkam, who scored 493/500, confessed that he was overwhelmed. “The healthy competition at school also helped me perform better,” said the engineering aspirant who also plays the keyboard.
R. Shreya, a science student of PSBB, K.K. Nagar scored 98.4 per cent, while S. Swetha, a commerce student from the same school, scored 98.2 per cent.
H. Shravan, a student of Modern Senior Secondary School who also scored 98.2 per cent, observed that the result took him by surprise.
Mr. Rao said 1,700 more students appeared for the examination in Tamil Nadu in 2014. Though Tamil Nadu’s pass percentage rose from 95.57 to 97.02 this year, it continued to rank fourth among the States and union territories in the southern region, with Daman and Diu, Goa and Karnataka preceding it.
A total of 45,064 students from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharasthra, Goa, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu registered for the exam in which 92.89 per cent candidates passed. This is an increase from last year’s 91.83 per cent, which was the highest among the eight CBSE regions last year.
