CHENNAI: In a rare feat, at least 40 students have shared the top three ranks in the SSLC exams, the results of which were declared on Friday. Similarly, 38 students shared the top spot in the Matriculation board, while six each from the Oriental and Anglo Indian streams shared the top ranks.
School heads and students were delighted for more reasons than one, as there was an increase in not just the number of centums but also in the overall pass percentage in SSLC. The Matriculation and the Oriental boards too recorded an increase in the pass percentage compared to previous years.The overall pass percentage in SSLC saw an increase from 82.5 last year to 85.3 this year. Also, an additional 18,082 students appeared for the examinations this year. The pass percentage of both boys and girls saw an increase compared to last year. While a little over 88 per cent of girls passed the exams, among boys, the pass percentage was 82.3.
The highlight this year was perhaps the number of students sharing the top honours in each board. There were five first rankers in the SSLC board, four in the Matriculation board and one each in the Anglo Indian and Oriental boards. In the SSLC board, there were 11 second rankers and 24 third rankers, while the Matriculation board had 12 second rankers and 22 third rankers. In the individual subjects, the number of toppers bloomed with 38 students in SSLC sharing the top three slots in Mathematics, 28 students in the science stream and 17 in the social science stream. "This is going to increase the competition for getting into the popular courses of science and biology, that is, if the student wants to change the school for higher secondary classes," said a principal of a T Nagar school. The statement was supported by the fact that this year, an additional 60,058 students have scored over 60 per cent aggregate. Full coverage: P2, 3
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