Tamil Nadu: 92.3% students clear Class XII exams, Tirupur records the highest pass rate

CHENNAI: The school education department sprang a surprise on Thursday and declared results of Class XII board exams. The results of CBSE and other boards were out earlier.
The pass percentage increased by 1% with 92.3% students clearing the exams.
A total of 7,79,931 students appeared for the exams from schools and 7,20,209 of them passed. The pass percentage among girls was 94.8%, while 89.4% boys cleared the exams.Also, commerce stream students fared better than those who studied science.
Of the 7,127 schools, 2,120 secured a 100% pass rate. Among the districts, Tirupur topped with 97.1% pass rate followed by Erode and Coimbatore at 96.99% and 96.39%.
Hemapooja S from Shree Niketan Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Thiruvallur scored 597 out of 600 marks. She secured full marks in commerce, accountancy, economics and got 99 in Tamil, English and business maths.
“I didn’t expect these numbers after the exam. But I put consistent efforts from the beginning,” she said, adding that except English, she found the papers easy.
Hemapooja said the new syllabus and question pattern were advanced. “Questions were knowledge-based and they could not be answered by rote learning,” she said. She has enrolled in a CA programme now.
R Praveen Kumar from SRV Boys Higher Secondary School in Rasipuram secured 590 out of 600 in the science stream. He scored centums in maths, biology, chemistry, and got 99 in physics and Tamil, and 92 in English.
“The question papers were easier than the previous year. Except English, I found rest of the exams easy,” he said. Kumar is now preparing for NEET and taking lessons online.
H Haseena Banu from Chennai scored 588 out of 600. She has plans to study BCom and then write the civil services exams.
“In our school, students have got more centums this year. But generally, many schools are saying that science stream students have got less marks,” said N Vijayan, senior principal of Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Tambaram.
S Selene Vinodhini, principal of Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Coimbatore, said the highest mark in arts group was higher than that in the science group in their school. She said the outgoing students had studied Class X under the old syllabus and then enrolled under the new syllabus in Class XII, something that could have affected performance of the science students.
The results of 700 students who were absent for final Class XII exam on March 24 will be released after the re-exam on July 27.
Of 2,835 differently abled students, 2,506 have cleared the exams. Fifty of the 62 prisoners who wrote the exams passed.
Students can apply for copy of answer scripts, retotalling and revaluation from their respective schools. Dates will be announced later.