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Corporation schools match State average

Staff Reporter

79.5 per cent average is the highest in the last five years

Chennai : Students of Chennai Corporation schools have matched the state average of marks scored in the SSLC class 10 examinations this year.

The 79.5 per cent average scored by the Corporation schools is the highest in the last five years. The average score was 68 per cent in 2003, 70 in 2004, 65.1 in 2005 and 76.2 in 2006.

Many of the students of Chennai Corporation schools come from poor families. N. D. Sowjanya, a student of Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School in Rotler Street, Choolai, scored the first mark of 477/500. Her father works as a sweeper in a private firm.

`Delighted'

"I worked hard through the year. My headmaster Mr. Kuppuraj and my parents are delighted," said Sowjanya, who will take up the Science stream next year. She scored full marks in Mathematics. During the summer vacation, she added to her vocational skills by going in for typewriting and spoken English classes. Second in line with a score of 470/500 is R. Divya, a student of Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School in Pulla Avenue, Aminjikarai. She intends to take up the Computer Science group next year and study engineering later.

A mechanic

M. Vimaleswari of Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School in Perambur stood third with 468/500. Her father is a mechanic and her mother is part of a local self-help group. She too wants to take up the Computer Science stream next.

The Corporation High School on Wall Tax Road was the only school that produced an all pass result.

This was followed by the Vannia Teynampet Corporation High School with a pass percentage of 98.6 and Seven Wells Corporation High School with 97.6 per cent.

Fifteen schools secured pass percentage above 90. This year, 9,283 Chennai Corporation school students had appeared for the SSLC examinations.

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