Most CBSE toppers took school exam

Updated on: Thursday, June 02, 2011

Just 0.54% away from scoring a perfect 100, 16 year old Nandita Rajan surprised herself by scoring 99.46% in her CBSE class X results that were declared on Tuesday morning. A student of Centre Point School in Nagpur, Nandita was informed about her actual score by her ecstatic school authorities. “My family still can’t believe that I scored this much,” Nandita told TOI.

While only 35% of the total number of CBSE class X students in the Chennai region opted out of the board examinations this year, close to 60% of students in the city took this option. Many schools had only 10 to 15% of their students opting for board examinations and surprisingly, toppers at most schools turned out to be those who had appeared for the school-based assessment. School heads, who were strictly informed by board authorities not to reveal their toppers this year, told TOI that this might be the case because students who appeared for the school-based assessment were less stressed than the others who appeared for the board examination.

Jose Kurien, principal of DAV High School, Nerul said, “There is a possibility that from next year most of the students would take only the school-based test as it reduces a lot of anxiety among students, makes them more confident since they appear for the exam in their school set-up and reduces the unnecessary fear of competition.”

Most CBSE toppers took school exam

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