The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) today declared results for both class XII, which saw a pass percentage of 96.28, and class X with 98.49 per cent as girls once again outshone boys.
ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) Examination, 2015, showed a marginal increase in pass percentages over the previous year's results, said Gerry Arathoon, CEO of the Council.
While class X registered a slight increase of 0.21 per cent, class XII showed a 1.01 per cent increase as compared to previous year's result.
For class X, the pass percentage of girls was 98.95 as against boys which was 98.12 per cent, he said, adding girls have performed better than boys in class XII result also with a pass percentage of 97.49 per cent against boys 95.27 per cent.
In the class XII results, the top rank was secured by Arkya Chatterjee from Vivekanand Mission School, Kolkata, who scored 99.75 per cent marks. The second position was bagged by four students with 99.50 per cent marks while the third rank by 13 students who scored 99.25 per cent marks.
The top position in Class X result was shared by three students -- Sougata Chowdhury from St Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata; Ananya Harshad Patwardhan, Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School, Mumbai; and Tezan Papan Sahu of St Mary's ICSE School, Navi Mumbai. Each of them scored 99.20 per cent marks.
The second position was bagged by three students scoring 99 per cent marks and the third place by 11 students securing 98.80 per cent marks.
A total of 1,58,833 students including over 70,000 girls appeared in the ICSE this year.
In class XII, over 38,000 boys and 32,000 girls appeared in the examination this year. The total number of students who had appeared in class XII examination was 71,141, Arathoon said.
Southern region students recorded the highest pass percentages in class X and XII results while maximum students appeared in the examinations from northern region comprising Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, and Delhi & NCR, he said.
