Kumari Palany & Co

Chennai schools - 85.33 % pass this year in TN SSLC exam

Posted on: 27/May/2010 11:05:17 AM

S. Ashpunisha, of Chennai Schools has scored 487 out of 500in the SSLC examination held this year. She is among the first three. She wants to become a doctor.

K Krithika, K. Krithika of Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Pulla Avenue, who too scored 487, is the daughter of a driver. “I used to get 3rd or 4th rank. But most times, I have ended up doing well in the final exams.”A good orator, she wants to become an Engineer. She missed centum maths by 3 marks.

 K. Sangeetha, another top scorer, daughter of R. Kandavel, working in Aavin. She wants to do her B.Com and become a Chartered Accountant.

S. Arumugam scored 486, is of HSS in Thiruvanmiyur, of Chennai marks. Vasantha Kumari of Chennai GHSS Saidapet and J. Vishnupriya of Chennai HSS Maduvinkarai, who scored 483 marks, shared the third marks. Students of Chennai Schools have fared better than last year, with an overall pass percentage of 85.33 in the SSLC exam, results of which were announced on Wednesday. Last year, 82.58 per cent of the students passed. Of the 9,115 students who appeared, 7,778 passed the exam. The number of students, who secured more than 400 marks, or 80 per cent, is 1,138.

Three schools — Chennai High School in Seven Wells, Chintadripet and Vanniya Teynampet — have got cent per cent pass. The pass percentage of girls at 89.06 was better than that of boys, who were 80.47 per cent.

However, the number of centums in subjects went down this year from 22 to 18.

Civic body officials said that for the first time special classes would be conducted for the Chennai School students who would be taking the supplementary exams.