Govt schools continue to better performance Shivalik Public’s Siddhant tops in Mohali with 98.4%
100% students in five of city’s 93 schools passed
CHANDIGARH: The government schools of Chandigarh have continued to improve their score for the second consecutive year in the Central Board of School education (CBSE) Class 10 examination results this year.
In the results declared on Wednesday, a total of 8,541 government school students successfully marked a pass percentage of 77.18.
Students from 93 government high and senior secondary schools appeared in the CBSE Class 10 exams this year.
Among those who appeared in the exams, 41 students secured above 90% marks. The pass percentage improved by 1.91% this year in comparison to the performance of government schools in the previous academic year.
VIJETA OF GMSSS-22 OVERALL TOPPER
The pass percentage of government schools in 2019 was 75.27%; a jump of 26.76 % was witnessed from the previous year. In 2017-18, only 48.51% of the students had managed to pass.
With a score of 96.8%, Vijeta, a student of GMSSS-22A stood first in Class 10 among students of government schools in Chandigarh. She is followed by Gaurika, a student of GMSSS-16, who scored 96.6% marks.
Moreover, of the total 93 government high schools and senior secondary schools in the city, five schools—GMSSS-16, GGMSSS-18, GMSSS-21, GMSSS-33 and GMSSS-37B— have given 100% results this year. Also, 26 schools have managed to score 90% or above pass percentage this year.
Many schools located on the city’s outskirts have managed to achieve good results this year including GSSS-Khuda Lahora with 90% pass percentage and GMHS-Khuda Jassu with 95.38% pass percentage.
According to CBSE, 76.07% of the boys studying in the city’s government schools passed, while the pass percentage of girls was 78.21% this year.
Moreover, 6,473 students have appeared from independent schools of Chandigarh and they have managed to get 96.82 pass percentage while JNV in Chandigarh managed to get 100% result this year.
WHAT WORKED
Director school education, Chandigarh, Rubinderjeet Brar, said, “The improvement in the score of government schools is due to increased supervision by senior officials of the department. Many new recruitments in government schools have been made in the last year and teachers have been timely promoted. The introduction of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has helped us as well.”
MOHALI : Siddhant Rawat, a student of Shivalik Public School, Phase 6, Mohali, emerged the topper of the district with 98.4% marks as the CBSE Class 10 results were announced on Wednesday. He was followed by Barsa Chatterjee from Dikshant Global School, Zirakpur, with 98% and Rithika Walia of Manav Mangal Smart World, Zirakpur, who secured 97.6%.
Siddhant was 0.4% shy of last year’s district topper Aashima Batla, who had scored 98.8%. However, he did better than 2018’s topper Gayatri of Lawrence Public School, Sector 53, who had got 98%.
With 492 out of 500 marks, Siddhant said he wants to take his interest in astronomy and hobby for stargazing and turn it into a career as an aerospace engineer, which he wants to pursue at one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). “I own a telescope which I use for stargazing so it would be great to pursue this interest of mine. My parents motivated me,” he said.
Barsha who scored 490 out of 500 marks attributed her success to her parents and teachers.
“I used to study very systematically and only for a few hours. I prepared for exams strictly from the NCERT books and didn’t even go through any reference books. I depended on my teachers for guidance and they helped explain the difficult topics to me,” said the 16-year-old.
Daughter of Debrath Chatterjee, logistics consultant, and Alka Chatterjee, yoga instructor, Barsha said she will opt for a commerce stream in order to achieve her goal of becoming an accountant.