Students put fears of parents and teachers about the CCE system at rest by scoring high marks in CBSE XII exams

Updated on: Tuesday, May 28, 2013

They were the first batch of students to miss out on the Class X board exams in 2011 but have put fears of parents and teachers about the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system at rest by scoring high in the CBSE Class XII boards, results for which were announced on Monday. Appearing in their first public exam, the students not only increased the pass rate by more than two percentage points but also scored higher overall.

There are joint all-India toppers this year—commerce student Paras Sharma from Delhi and science student Sopan Khosla from Jabalpur have scored 495 out of 500, with perfect 100s in four subjects. Pratyush Kumar Singh from Arunachal Pradesh has topped humanities with 98%. Lauding the good results, the ministry for human re-source development has an-nounced that around 200 meritorious students from government schools will get cash rewards of Rs 1 lakh each. "It has been a pleasant surprise, as I was not expect-ing 99%. But I was confident of getting 95-96%. I was anxious before the exams as this was my first big exam, but now I am happy. I want to pursue BTech in computer science from an IIT," said Sopan.

The pass rate (82.10%) this time is the best in five years and 2.01 percentage points more than last year's. The number of students with scores above 90% has in-creased by 37% to 44,676 while those with scores above 95% number 7,231, an in-crease of 62.27%. A total of 10,509 merit certificates have been given this year, up from 9,076 in 2012.

"This speaks well of the CCE system and the cred-it goes to students and teach-ers. This is the first batch which faced a completely new evaluation system in classes IX and X, and it seems to have contributed to better results in Class XII," said CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi.

Chennai and Delhi re-gions retained the top two positions with Chennai re-cording a 91.83% pass rate and Delhi 86.78%. All of the eight regions improved upon their pass percentage. How-ever, the decade-old trend of girls outshining boys in the boards continues and the gap still exceeds 10 percentage points. While the pass per-centage for both boys and girls improved, girls record-ed a rate of 87.98% as against 77.78% among boys. In the special category, Sonali Gupta of DAV Cente-nary Public School, Hanu-mangarh, Rajasthan, topped with 96.6% in the commerce stream.

Students put fears of parents and teachers about the CCE system at rest by scoring high marks in CBSE XII exams

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