CBSE Class X: Boys outshine girls in state

Bhubaneswar: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the Class X results on Wednesday with Bhubaneswar region, comprising Odisha, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh, recording a pass percentage of 93.02%.
The Kendriya Vidyalayas excelled with 99.40 pass percentage followed by Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas with 99.23% and 94.26% by independent schools. As many as 98,826 students from 1154 schools appeared for the examination in 321 centres under the Bhubaneswar region.
Contrary to the national trend, boys outperformed girls in the state with a pass percentage of 93.21% against that of 92.74% by girls. A total of 36,735 students had appeared for the exam in the state.
Schools across the state have registered spectacular performances. While most city schools have recorded 100% pass outs, a number of students have scored above 99%.
Gyanadeep Paul of DAV Public School, Unit-8, has secured 496 out of 500 (99.4%) followed by Shreya Mohapatra and Smaran Sivam, who scored 99.2% and 99%, respectively. The school recorded 100 per cent results with 176 of 270 students scoring above 90%.
Biswajeet Nayak of DAV Public School, Pokhariput, also secured 99.4% while Tanmaya Mohapatra stood second with 99% and Ayush Pattojoshi third with 98.8%. Ninety-three of the school’s 180 students scored above 90%.
Students of ODM Public School, Priya Somadutta Nayak, Ankita Mondal and Ritika Behera scored 99.2% to top the school. While all the 232 students of the school have passed with 60% marks, of whom Ritik Ranjan Rath and Subha Krishna Agnee secured second and third positions with 98.6% and 98.4%, respectively. Besides, eight students scored above 98%, 11 above 97%, 18 more than 96% besides 81 students above 90%.
Tanmana Mishra of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, topped with 495 marks (99%) followed by Shubhangi Nayak and Tarun Kumar Dora with 494 (98.8 %). Many students have got 100 marks in subjects like mathematics, science, social science, Odia and Sanskrit.
SAI International School continued with the good result, with full pass percentage and 99% of the students scoring above 75%. Sutirth Rath with 98.4% is the school topper followed by Snehal Sujal Mohanty in second with 98.2%. Ankan Mohapatra with 98% at the third place.
Students of SAI International Residential School have also scored full pass percentage where Manvi Agarwal and Shradha Agrawal jointly took the top spot with 96.8%.
Students of DPS Kalinga have also excelled in the Class X exam with Ananya Samanta scoring 98.8%. Nearly 50% of the students who appeared for the exam scored 90% and above.
The Kendriya Vidyalayas in the city have also scored well. Suryadeep Mallick of KV-1 has topped the school with 98.4% marks. Students of KiiT International School also posted cent percent results with Subhomita Chakraborty topping the institute with 98% and 35% of the students scoring above 90%. DAV Public School, IFFCO, in Paradip also got all pass outs with Sangeeta Lagnalabdha Das scoring 97.8% marks.
Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas, the state-run English medium schools, have also fared well in the board exams. A total of 5,430 students from 100 Adarsh Vidyalayas appeared for the exam among whom Sanskriti Khamari of Patharchepa Adarsha Vidyalaya in Balangir has topped with 98.8% marks. Seven Adarsh Vidyalayas have got cent percent pass outs while 295 students of the schools have achieved 90% and above.
(EOM)