Mumbai,May 23: In a rare double feat, Mumbai has thrown up both the ICSE (class X) and CBSE (class XII) all-India toppers this year.
Mumbai’s Mrittika Sen from Rajhans Vidyalaya, Andheri, emerged the joint topper for the CBSE (class XII) exams along with Tannvi Aggrawal from Apeejay School, Faridabad. Both students scored 98.4%. Mumbai boy Rishi Mehta joined the party, topping the ICSE examination nationwide with 99% (for English plus best four subjects).
New Delhi,May 20: Girls outshone boys in the Class X and Class XII examinations conducted by the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) this year.
While 1,08,217 students, including 60,812 boys and 47,405 girls, had appeared in Class X (ICSE), about 52,552 students, including 29,207 boys and 23,345 girls, had written the Class XII (ISC) exam, conducted in March this year.
The results announced by CISCE showed that 98.05 per cent students got through the ICSE while 97.08 per cent students could pass the ISC.
Chennai,May 20: Schools in the district have once again proved their mettle by bagging the top ranks, 10 to be exact, in the higher secondary state board examinations.
Noting the trend Chennai residents are putting their children in these schools after high school so they would be able to score marks high enough to be able to get into professional courses.
Two years ago, A Hector put his daughter Marcia, who had finished her Class X board exams, in Kurinji Higher Secondary School in Namakkal.
Mumbai,May 20: Parents of students enrolled in Byculla’s Antonio De Souza High School were shocked when some 300-odd children in the secondary section were failed in the past school year.
Both local corporator Mangesh Bansod as well as MNS leader Bala Nandgaonkar took up the matter on behalf of the parents and visited the school authorities.
On Monday, at a meeting with parents, the school announced that it would give 13 grace marks each to all the children who had failed in Std V to IX, with the result that around 200-odd students will now pass.
New Delhi, February 27: ‘I wish I could fly in the sky and come out in the light from this darkness,’ says 10-year-old Pradip, who left school last year after being beaten severely by a teacher, as tears swell in his eyes.
His father, a labourer, was not interested in sending him to school but Pradip’s mother supported him initially. In June 2008, Pradip was physically abused and thrown out of a local government school by his class teacher for not completing his class assignments.