| Thursday, May 24, 2007
Chennai students do well in CBSE XII exam
- Girls have better pass percentage
- Chennai students share top ranks
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| Nisha Hariharan |
K. Vijayakumar |
Chennai: Students from the CBSE stream are likely to give their
State board counterparts tough competition during admission
to professional courses.
In the Standard XII examination results for Chennai and Ajmer
regions, released on Wednesday, many CBSE students are almost
on a par with State Board students when it comes to the critical
cut-off marks.
The Chennai region comprises Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
Kerala, Maharashtra, Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Out of total pass percentage of 91.35 nationally, girls (92.68
per cent) bettered the performance of boys (90.35 percentage).
Chennai students came out on top: K.Vijayakumar
of DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Gopalapuram, and Nisha
Hariharan of Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram, Kilpauk, scored
490 out of 500 marks each, sharing the first rank with Mumbai
student Roshini Banu.
Second rankers
City students, Sindhu Hariharan of P.S. Senior
Secondary School and Prerna P.Shah of Rajaji
Vidhyashram, shared the second rank with another candidate with
489 marks. S.Rohini of DAV Girls Higher Secondary
School, Gopalapuram, shared the third rank with two others,
with 488 marks.
A total of 42,823 candidates had appeared for the March examination
from the Chennai region, out of which 39, 135 passed the examination.
Out of a total of 4,943 candidates from Tamil Nadu, 4,765 were
successful — 96. 40 per cent — up nearly two percentage
points from last year's 94.79 per cent.
Seat matrix changes
At least 350 CBSE students in Tamil Nadu secured more than 197
out of a possible 200 (in engineering cut-off marks) after normalisation,
according to an analysis by Salem-based consultancy firm, Turning
Point.
As the first mark in Mathematics was 100, the normalisation
method puts it on par with State board. In Physics and Chemistry,
however, the first mark in CBSE was only 99, which meant that
students who have scored 98 or less in either of these subjects
will benefit greatly under normalisation.
"More than 300 CBSE students will compete for the top layer
of engineering seats. Even if 70 of them go to the IITs and
NITs, there will still be 200 to 230 CBSE students in the fray
in the top tier," says Jayaprakash Gandhi of Turning Point.
Even down the line, up to a cut-off score of 197 out of 200,
CBSE students stand a good chance at making it to top institutions.
In the medical stream too, CBSE students are likely to take
away a good number of seats in top colleges, even more than
last year.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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