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| Saturday, May 10, 2008
Class XII: pass percentage up to 84.4
CHENNAI: The overall pass percentage of students who took the
State Board Class XII (HSC) examinations this year has gone
up to 84.4 per cent. An increase of 3.4 percentage points from
last year’s 81 per cent, this is the highest pass percentage
recorded in the State since 2003.
Declaring the results here on Friday, Director of Government
Examinations Vasanthi Jeevanandam said 87.3 per cent of the
girls had passed, while boys recorded a pass percentage of 81.3.
A total of 5,87,994, students appeared for the Class XII examinations
this year in schools across the State.
School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu told The Hindu
that he was very happy with the results. “We have had
a series of subject-wise review meetings since the time quarterly
examinations got over. Teachers have been focussing on students
who did not perform too well in those examinations and have
helped them score high.”
The results were declared early to help students obtain their
mark sheets soon and concentrate on their college admissions,
he said. Among students who took Tamil as their first language,
R. Dharani of Vidhya Vikas Higher Secondary School, Tiruchengode
(Namakkal), and M. Rajeshkumar of St. Joseph’s Higher
Secondary School, Chengalpattu, secured the first rank in the
State with a total of 1,182 marks each.”
There has been a sharp increase in the number of centums this
year, particularly in Mathematics. The number has more than
doubled, from 1,568 last year to 3,852 this year. As many as
60 students have scored full marks in Computer Science, as compared
to none last year. Physics, Chemistry and Biology have 282,
306 and 153 centums respectively.
A total of 739 candidates have scored centums in Accountancy
and 291 in Business Mathematics.
The mark sheets will be made available in schools before May
21. To download application forms for re-totalling and for further
details on the results, visit dge.tn.gov.in.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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