Bucking the national trend of a marginal decrease in pass percentage, the overall pass percentage of CBSE Plus Two students in Madurai district went up from 97.42 % in 2016 to 99.08 % in 2017 as per results announced on Sunday.
This is despite a nearly 40% increase in the total number of students who took the examinations this year from all the five schools in the district. Of the 431 students who sat for the examination in 2017, compared to 310 students last year, 427 students passed the examination.
The increase of nearly two percentage points was contributed mainly by Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 with the highest number of 162 students in the district, which recorded 100 % pass this year, a considerable jump from 95.54 % in 2016.
P. Selvaraj, Principal of the school, attributed the increase in the pass percentage to the special focus and coaching given to students, particularly in subjects such as Economics and Mathematics, in which maximum number of students failed last year.
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2 school in Tirupparankundram recorded 100% pass in Plus Two for the fifth consecutive year with all the 53 students clearing the exams, according to R. Geeta Kumari, Principal. Sources in Velammal Vidyalaya said that the school had achieved 100 % results similar to last year.
Mahatma Montessori School (CBSE), which had the second highest number of students in the district, recorded 97.94 % pass with three of their 146 students failing in Mathematics this year, according to P. Hamsapriya, Principal.
Aruna M. Visvessvar, Senior Principal, Adhyapana School, said that the school recorded a pass percentage of 97.77 %, with one of their 45 students, who could not appear for a subject during the exam, failing to clear.
Among the top scorers were A. Deva Krishna of Mahatma Montessori School (CBSE), who scored 490 marks out of 500 with a centum in Biology. At least six more students had secured more than 480 marks in the district, which included S. Deeptha (488), V. Poorvaja (485), S. Krithick Kanna (485), S. Adithya (483) and Sonath Sachin (483) from KV No. 1 and A. Rangarajan (482) from Mahatma Montessori School (CBSE). The results also included at least three centums in Economics, and a centum each in Physics and Chemisty.
Cluster performs well
Sources at Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) said that the performance of the seven KV schools in the Madurai Cluster of KVS, from which students sat for Plus Two examinations this year, witnessed a considerable improvement in performance compared to last year.
R. Senthil Kumar, Assistant Commissioner, who is in charge of the cluster, said that only one student from the school in Nagercoil had failed from the cluster, compared to high number of failures last year.
“The school in Mandapan in Ramanathapuram district, in particular, achieved 100 % pass this year, compared to roughly 80 % last year,” he said.
He attributed it to the special camps arranged for the children from the schools, where pass percentage was low, and temporary deployment of best teachers from other schools to these schools.
