— Photo: V. Ganesan

HIGH FIVE: Students who have passed the CBSE standard XII examination rejoice at the Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Perambur, in Chennai on Wednesday.

CHENNAI: Students from the CBSE stream are likely to give their State board counterparts tough competition during admission to professional courses.

In the Standard XII examination results for Chennai and Ajmer regions, released on Wednesday, many CBSE students are almost on a par with State Board students when it comes to the critical cut-off marks.

The Chennai region comprises Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Out of total pass percentage of 91.35 nationally, girls (92.68 per cent) bettered the performance of boys (90.35 percentage). Chennai students came out on top: K. Vijayakumar of DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Gopalapuram, and Nisha Hariharan of Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram, Kilpauk, scored 490 out of 500 marks each, sharing the first rank with Mumbai student Roshini Banu.

Second rankers

City students, Sindhu Hariharan of P.S. Senior Secondary School and Prerna P. Shah of Rajaji Vidhyashram, shared the second rank with another candidate with 489 marks. S Rohini of DAV Girls Higher Secondary School, Gopalapuram, shared the third rank with two others, with 488 marks.

A total of 42,823 candidates had appeared for the March examination from the Chennai region, out of which 39, 135 passed the examination.

Out of a total of 4,943 candidates from Tamil Nadu, 4,765 were successful — 96. 40 per cent — up nearly two percentage points from last year's 94.79 per cent.

Seat matrix changes

At least 350 CBSE students in Tamil Nadu secured more than 197 out of a possible 200 (in engineering cut-off marks) after normalisation, according to an analysis by Salem-based consultancy firm, Turning Point.

As the first mark in Mathematics was 100, the normalisation method puts it on par with State board. In Physics and Chemistry, however, the first mark in CBSE was only 99, which meant that students who have scored 98 or less in either of these subjects will benefit greatly under normalisation.

"More than 300 CBSE students will compete for the top layer of engineering seats. Even if 70 of them go to the IITs and NITs, there will still be 200 to 230 CBSE students in the fray in the top tier," says Jayaprakash Gandhi of Turning Point.

Even down the line, up to a cut-off score of 197 out of 200, CBSE students stand a good chance at making it to top institutions.

In the medical stream too, CBSE students are likely to take away a good number of seats in top colleges, even more than last year.

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