CBSE results: A good year for private schools too in Delhi

NEW DELHI: While a majority of Delhi’s private schools witnessed a 100% pass percentage, many of their students managed to get perfect scores in certain subjects. This was one of the reasons for the jump in the number of students scoring 95% and above—from 17,690 in 2019 to 38,686 this year.
Top scorer of Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri, Laksh Gupta scored a perfect 100 in maths.Similarly, at Manav Sthali School, Rajendra Nagar, 16 students got a perfect 100 in multiple subjects, such as mass media studies, maths, economics, etc, while three psychology students at The Indian School managed the perfect scores. The results were similar at Amity Pushp Vihar where students got a perfect 100 in subjects, such as English, political science and psychology. At three branches of Amity International School in Delhi –Saket, Pushp Vihar and Mayur Vihar— 146 out of 389 students scored 95% and above in their best of four.
At DPS Vasant Kunj, of the 466 students who appeared for the exam, 105 which is 22.53% of the Class XII students, managed to get marks of 95% and above. At Alhcon International School, 34 out of 177 students were able to achieve the feat of crossing the 95% mark.
The private schools in the capital’s East region saw a high percentage of students (63,648) appearing out of the 64,187 which had registered. In the West region, 37,966 students appeared out of the 38,159 which had registered.
There were some exams that could not take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic and students were awarded marks after different assessment methods.
Principal of The Indian School, Tania Joshi was unimpressed with this. Though happy with the overall score, she said that “some kids were disappointed as they felt that they could have managed to do well if the exam were held.”
However, for such students disappointed with the marks, there is an opportunity to sit for the optional improvement exam.
But according to Ashok Pandey, director of Ahlcon group of schools, the results are good this year and many students may not think of appearing for the improvement exams. His school saw 34 out of over 170 students scoring more than 95% and above.
Ameeta Wattal of Springdales, Pusa Road, also said that most students would accept the CBSE results and not opt for optional exams. “The results have been very child-centric and sensitive towards how students have given their board exams. While it is hypothetical to guess the situation in the future with the way the pandemic is going, I believe there would be anxiety among students about the optional exams. And since the results have been good, students may not take that option.”
She also praised Central Board of Secondary Education for not releasing the merit list. “To release names of toppers would have been unfair as there were several exams, which students could not sit for.”
Not just private schools, Shiv Nadar Foundation's ‘VidyaGyan’, a leadership academy for economically underprivileged and meritorious students from rural Uttar Pradesh, also saw good results with their student Devesh Sharma of the humanities stream becoming top scorer with 99.2%.