Percentage of pass in ICSE and ISC class X and XII exams drops

Updated on: Saturday, May 18, 2013

The percentages of students passing the Class X and Class XII (ICSE and ISC) exams conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) have slipped from last year's levels. In 2012, 98.62% and 97.25% students had cleared the ICSE and ISC exams; in 2013, those have dipped to 98.2% and 95.15%.

A total of 1,40,878 students wrote the ICSE exams from 1,762 schools; and 64,043 from 828 schools took the ISC in 2013 across the country and abroad. Boys outnumbered girls. But girls have out-performed boys. "Girls have done better on the whole," said CISCE chief executive and secretary Gerry Arathoon. Not only are their pass percentages healthier - 98.78% as opposed to the boys' 97.73% in ICSE and 96.66% against the boys' 93.91% in ISC - the top scorers in both exams are girls.

The highest marks in Class X have been obtained by three students, all girls from Maharashtra. Anika Aggarwal, Simran Khanuja, both from Pune's St. Mary's School and Manasi Arora of Mumbai's Chaturbhuj Narsee Memorial School have scored 98.40%. Students from the south have done best in terms of pass-percentage (99.66%). But the top positions have gone to the students in the Western region. North, with a pass-percentage of 97.30%, is last in the ranking.

South has performed better than the others even in the Class XII exams. But the top position has gone to last-ranker, north. The highest marks in ISC - 99% -- have been fetched by Bhuvanya Vijay, student of Dehradun's St. Joseph's Academy. She is the sole occupant of that spot.

Over 5,000 Scheduled Caste (SC), 4,613 Scheduled Tribe (ST) and 18,466 Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidates wrote the Class X exams. The pass percentages are 97%, 96.16% and 98.01%, respectively. The ISC exam was taken by 1,848 SC, 2,322 ST and 5,670 OBC candidates of whom, 92.69%, 91.34% and 94.43% passed.

A total of 652 cases suffering from dyslexia, 37 visually impaired and 18 hospitalized students took the exams. Of them, 28 dyslexic, six visually challenged and five hospitalized candidates scored above 90%.

Percentage of pass in ICSE and ISC class X and XII exams drops

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