City improves overall results this year
This year the overall pass percentage of both private as well as government schools has gone up by 7 per cent. The over all pass percetage of government schools has improved by 13.34 per cent, while that of private schools has improved by 6.56 per cent.
The girls have also performed better than boys with a pass percentage of 90.52 per cent as compared to 88.10 per cent scored by boys. The introduction of additional 20 internal marks by the CBSE in Maths and Social Studies is also believed to have added to the 7 per cent increase.
Among the private schools, Sacred Heart Convent School, Sector 26, Chandigarh, who besides having the Tricity topper, has 91 students scoring above 90 per cent marks.
At Bhavan Vidyalaya School, Sector 27, Chandigarh, 39 students have scored above 90 per cent. The schools boasts of having the second and third topper in the Tricity. At AKSIPS, Sector 41, 16 students have scored more than 90 per cent marks. At KBDAV School, 30 students have scored above 90 per cent. This schools also has the third Tricity topper.
Meanwhile for model schools, the overall pass percentage is 83.4 per cent as compared 54.83 per cent of non-model schools. However, the result of Government High School, Sector 24, has gone down. The pass percentage of the school, which has no principal, is 12.9 per cent.