Chennai :

Chennai boy Karthik Sriram, from Chettinad Hari Shree Vidyalayam, stole the limelight topping the ICSE (Indian Certificate for Secondary Education) class-10 scores in Tamil Nadu in the results announced on Wednesday. He scored 98.20 per cent. “I am thrilled. I got 98 percent in Tamil, 99 in Maths, 95 in English, 96 in science and 99 in history. I have decided to take the science group”, Karthik said.

The second rank in the state has gone to T. Venkat of the Virudhunagar TSM Manickam Nadar School in Madurai with 97.80 percent aggregate. “I am preparing for getting into the IIT”, said Venkat. While boys bagged both the top ranks in the state, the girl students did slightly better overall, scoring 99.80 percent passes while the boys got 99.42 percent passes.

Academic coordinator Shobana Balaji of Chettinad Hari Shree Vidyalayam is understandably excited, not just about Karthik’s top rank but also by the overall performances of her 51 students who took the ICSE exams this year. “Five of our children scored centum in computer science and two got centum in maths”, she told DC.

More than 2,000 students from 54 ICSE schools took the exams. ICSE chief executive secretary Gerry Aroothan said the southern region has excelled in the results and particularly, schools in Tamil Nadu did extremely well scoring 99.59 percent passes.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC / by Pramila Krishnan / May 22nd, 2014