With 99.2%, CPS’ Divya breaks highest score record for Std XII

Nagpur: On Monday afternoon, Centre Point School (Wardhaman Nagar) student Divya Suchak walked into the record books by scoring the highest ever marks in CBSE Std XII in Nagpur. With a 99.2% score in commerce stream, Suchak beat the previous record of 98.6% set in 2018 by Nidhi Chandak of Bhavans’ Civil Lines.
Suchak not only broke the 99% barrier but also re-established the dominance of commerce stream in Nagpur. Right from 2012 till 2018, commerce stream produced the highest scorers in Nagpur for CBSE. That consecutive seven-year-long run was broken last year when Jain International School’s Shreyashi Saha, a science stream student, topped the city.
However, commerce stream came back with a bang this year as even the city’s second top score witnessed a tie at 98.6% between Bhavans’ Civil Lines student (commerce) Priyadevi Suthar and Bhavans’ Srikrishna Nagar’s Ketki Moghe (humanities). Science stream started its tally with CPS Katol Road’s Arunav Bhowmick scoring 98%. It was after a long time that Nagpur witnessed all three streams featuring in the top three scores.
CBSE results this year belonged a close knit group with the top three spots in all streams being shared between different branches of CPS and Bhavans along with Narayana Vidyalayam and Kendriya Vidyalaya (Vayusena Nagar). This branch of KV is now regularly featuring in the top three of either of the streams for last couple of years, and carving a niche for itself among results space, which is usually dominated by private unaided schools.
The concentration of top three scorers in all streams between just four schools, albeit in different branches, is also resembling the old times when a handful of schools dominated the CBSE results scene. As per the criteria mentioned above, CPS group of schools bagged five spots, Bhavans group getting three, while Narayana Vidyalayam and KV Vayusena Nagar got one each.
Suchak’s highest score record was not the only thing new, as this year for the first time ever Nagpur schools’ administrative control was shifted to the new Pune regional office (RO). Till 2019, all CBSE schools in Maharashtra were being administered by Chennai RO. In Maharashtra, 20,552 students appeared for the board exam of which 18,577 cleared it.
Pune RO, which now has administrative control of all CBSE schools in Maharashtra, Goa, Diu, Daman and Silvasa, achieved a pass percentage of 90.24% in its debut year.