Kolkata girl tops ISC Class 12 with 99.5%, boys finish first in Class 10

NEWDELHI: Girls performed better than boys in the ICSE (Class 10) and ISC (Class 12) board exams 2017, results of which were declared by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Monday.

Ananya Maity of The Heritage School, Kolkata was the topper of ISC (Class 12) boards with 99.50%.

Muskan Abdulla Pathan from Hutchings High School, Pune and Ashwin Rao from St Paul’s English School, Bengaluru were declared joint toppers of ICSE (Class 10) exam with 99.4%.

Nearly 2,40,660 candidates — 1,68,591 for ICSE and 72,096 for ISC — appeared in the exams this year.

The pass percentage of candidates who appeared in the ICSE exam was 98.53 and that of the ISC students was 96.47 Last year, 98.50% students cleared the ICSE exam and 96.46% candidates passed the ISC.

Girls did better than boys in both forms of the exams in terms of pass percentage. In ICSE, 99.03% girls passed and 98.13% boys cleared the exam. Similarly, in ISC girls outperformed boys with a pass percentage of 97.73 as compared to the 95.39% boys who cleared the exam.

The ICSE exam was written by 96,770 boys and 78,529 girls and — out of which 94,957 boys and 77,765 girls passed the exam respectively.

In the ISC exam, 39,703 boys and 33,930 girls appeared and out of which 37,872 boys and 33,161 girls passed the exam respectively. Region-wise, south dominated in both forms of the exams. In ICSE, the southern region applicants achieved a pass percentage of 99.64 and in ISC, the region achieved 98.97.