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Dubious distinction for Delhi

Lakshmi B. Ghosh

Slight decline in the results of regular students The CBSE Chairman, Ashok Ganguly, said that 1,178 students from the Delhi region have scored 90 per cent or above as against the 779 students last year.

NEW DELHI: Delhi might have improved its overall performance by scoring a pass percentage of 77.61 as against 75.75 last year in the Class XII examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), but it is unable to shake off the dubious distinction of the maximum number of cases of unfair means. Although the boys managed to do better than last year's pass percentage of 69.43 by scoring 72.59 this time round, their performance still fell short of beating the girls, who had a pass percentage of 82.99 this time as against 82.58 per cent last year.

There has been a slight decline in the results of regular students with a pass percentage of 82.44 as against 83.23 last year, while private students showed improvement in their pass percentage from 29.79 to 34.65.

A total of 139,754 students from 1,256 schools had appeared for the Class XII examinations from 544 centres across the Delhi region this year. Kendriya Vidyalayas led the way among the city's schools with a pass percentage of 96.39, followed by Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya with 90.54 and independent schools with 89.46 per cent. Government schools' results saw a slight drop to record a pass percentage of 76.44, while the figures of Government-aided schools stood at 75.25 per cent, a drop from last year's 77.15 per cent. Private students, on the other hand, improved their score from 29.79 to 34.65 per cent this time.

The number of students who will appear for the compartment examination has shown a dip, with 12.38 per cent of the students as against 12.52 per cent last year.

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