Six students from different schools of the Tricity have topped the four streams in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class XII exams. The results were declared today. While the CBSE continued with its stand of not announcing the toppers, the Tricity recorded two toppers each in medical and humanities streams, and one each in non-medical and commerce.
Anoop Saini of the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, topped the non-medical stream by scoring 99.4 per cent marks — making him the top performer in all streams and notably the first from a Chandigarh government school. He was the Tricity topper in Class X exams earlier with 98.4 per cent marks. Adhishri Dhyani of Satluj Public School, Sector 4, Panchkula, topped the commerce stream with 98.8 per cent marks. In humanities, Dishita of Satluj School shared the top position with Anushka Malik of St Soldier’s School, Sector 16, with 99.2 per cent marks. In medical, Rishit Singla of Guru Nanak Dev Public School, Sector 36, topped the stream along with Satvik Bhardwaj of Shishu Niketan School, Sector 22-D with 98.4 per cent marks.
A total of 17,689,68 students appeared for the exams and 15,071,09 passed. The Panchkula region (Chandigarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir) recorded a passing percentage of 85.73. The overall pass percentage has dipped by over three percentage points compared to last year, from 88.39 to 85.20.
“The result clearly depicts high stakes of students’ effort to have a better future. So far, this is the closest ever fight between the top three finishers of any stream,” said Amita Khorana, Director, Shishu Niketan Public School, Sector 22. The second best performance in commerce was also a tie at 98.6 per cent between Savvnie Thappar and Shauray Gupta, both from Bhavan Vidyalaya, Sector 27. Similarly, in commerce, Anshika of St Kabir School, Sector 26, scored 98.6 per cent marks.
Minor dip in overall percentage of govt schools
The overall pass percentage of Government Senior Secondary Schools in Chandigarh has been recorded at 87.25, as compared to 88.79 last year — a dip of 1.54 percentage points. Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Punjab and UT Administrator, congratulated the students, teachers and parents on the commendable performance. “The decline in the overall pass percentage at both the national and UT level may be attributed to stricter and competency-based evaluation practices, greater emphasis on conceptual understanding under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and the introduction of digital evaluation of answer sheets through on-screen marking (OSM). The trend reflects a gradual shift from rote learning towards application-based assessment,” read a release by the Education Department.
As many as 16 schools achieved pass percentages of 90 and above.
