In Vadodara’s 100 per cent CISCE results, boys shine

Vadodara: City schools registered cent percent results in class 10 and 12 exams under the Council of Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) which were declared on Saturday. Both Billabong High International School and Nalanda International School scored 100 percent results in the exams.
Nivedita Chawda, a student of Nalanda International School who topped Vadodara in humanities stream with 99.75%, told TOI: “I am delighted with my result!”
“For the 11th consecutive year, our class 10 students have secured 100% results in ICSE. Our 10th batch had 24 students,” said principal of Billabong High International School, Dr Priti Shrimal. She added that Prisha Thapar topped in the school with 96%.
“Our seventh ISC batch of 25 students also made us proud with 100% results in class 12 exams in all the three streams — humanities, commerce and science,” said Shrimal.
Humanities student Vaaridhi Himanshu Khatsuria topped the list of successful candidates in the school with 99.5%.
Hussainali Sibten Attarwala secured 95.75% in the science stream, while commerce student Priyal Sunil Kumar Singhal secured 96%.
Nivedita had been consistently working towards her goal for the past two years. “In my internal exams I have been scoring full marks and all my efforts were directed to eventually achieve this result. Notwithstanding the challenges of online mode of education, I was determined to get a full score in psychology, sociology and political science,” said the student, who will be studying studio art in the Honours Tutorial College of Ohio University.
Going by a release issued by CISCE, boys have performed better than girls in Gujarat in both ISCE and ISC. While the pass percentage in class 10 stands at 99.97%, it is 99.95% in class 12.
All 2,099 boys have successfully cleared their class 10, while just one out of 1,355 girls has been unsuccessful in the exam.
In class 12, all 1,216 boys have successfully cleared their exams, while one out of 773 girls wasn’t able to clear her exams.