NEW DELHI, May 29:
Four students topped the Class 10 CBSE examinations this year even as girls once again stole a march over boys.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the Class 10 board exam results today. The overall pass percentage was 86.70, it said.
Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar congratulated the students who passed their Class 10 CBSE exams and said the reintroduction of the board exam was an important step.
Girls, with a pass percentage of 88.67, did better than the boys, who registered a pass percentage of 85.32.
Four students — Prakhar Mittal of DPS Gurgaon, Rimzhim Agarwal of RP Public School, Bijnor, Nandini Garg of Scottish International School, Shamli and Sreelakshmi G of Bhavan’s Vidyalaya, Kochi — topped the exam with 499 marks out of 500, the board said.
While seven students secured the second position with 498 marks, 14 students bagged the third spot with a score of 497. Out of seven students who secured 498 marks, five are girls. Out of the 14 students who secured 497 marks, nine are girls.
The top three performing regions are — Thiruvananthapuram (pass percentage 99.60), Chennai (97.37) and Ajmer (91.86).
Delhi recorded a pass percentage of 78.62.
As many as 1,31,493 candidates secured 90 per cent marks and above, while 27,426 candidates secured 95 per cent marks and above, the board said. The pass percentage for candidates in foreign schools was 98.32 per cent.
The pass percentage for differently-abled students was 92.55, with Anushka Panda of Sun City, Gurgaon, and Sanya Gandhi of Uttam School, Ghaziabad, topping in the category by securing 489 marks out of 500. Somya Deep Pradhan of JNV, Dhanpur in Odisha bagged the second spot with a score of 484.
As many as 135 candidates in the differently-abled category secured 90 per cent marks and above, while 21 of them secured 95 per cent marks and above, the board said.
As many as 1,86,067 candidates got compartment.
“I congratulate those who have succeeded in their exams. Those who did not succeed should not lose heart. The students who have got compartment should prepare well and they will pass the exam,” Javadekar told reporters.
He said the Class 10 exams would help students prepare for the Class 12 board exams.
“After a long gap, the Class 10 board exams were conducted. It was an important step to reintroduce the exams. The parents and teachers had also approved of the move,” he added.
The board exams this year were marred by controversy with question paper leaks being reported from Delhi-NCR and Jharkhand.
The HRD Ministry had decided against conducting a re-examination of the Class 10 mathematics paper in the “interest of students”.
This was the first batch to appear for the Class 10 board examinations after the CBSE decided to junk the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), and reintroduce the board exams.
As many as 16,24,682 students had appeared for the Class 10 CBSE exams across 4,460 exam centres this year.
Music compositions of western classical masters Mozart and Beethoven acted as stress-buster for Prakhar Mittal, one of the four all-India CBSE class 10 toppers, who is also a trained pianist.
Prakhar said that he kept away from social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as this effects concentration.
A student of DPS Gurgaon, Prakhar scored 499 marks out of 500. It was in French that he missed the perfect score by one. His other subjects were English, Social Science, Mathematics and Science.
The other three students who secured the pole position are Rimzhim Agarwal of RP Public School, Bijnor; Nandini Garg of Scottish International School, Shamli, and Sreelakshmi G of Bhavan’s Vidyalaya, Kochi.
Prakhar’s father, who works with a finance firm in Gurgaon, said that his son always studied according to a plan.
“He has always been a good student and we expected a good result from him. But it was not expected that he would top the entire country. He would prepare a plan and decide that he would cover this much syllabus,” he said.
Prakhar’s mother is a homemaker.
The teenager said, “Of course, there was a fear as I was about to appear for my first Board exams. But instead of taking pressure, I tried to be consistent and studied everyday for at least three hours. My parents never put pressure on me.”
“I used to study at night. My favourite subjects are Maths and Science. The teachers of schools also guided me during preparation of examination and it worked well for me,” he said.
Prakhar has his eyes set on getting into one of the IITs after finishing his class 12. He has interest in robotics.
“I feel that the Class 10 Board (exam) helps you gain experience on how one has to prepare for board exams. Even if you don’t do well in class 10 exams, you can always try and do well in your class 12 boards,” he said.
For busting exam stress, Prakhar would listen to music or go for a walk.
“I have been learning piano for many years. I am into classical piano and I like Beethoven and Mozart. But music is more of a passion, something I pursue for relaxation. My real calling is academics,” he said, adding he plans to invite his friends home for a celebration. (PTI)
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