Chennai: 

Breaking the trend of the last few years, two boys secured the first spot this year in the Plus-2 examination. However, girls did outshine boys once again with 91 per cent pass percentage as against 84.7 per cent by boys.

Last year the pass percentage among girls and boys had stood at 89.7 per cent and 83.2 per cent respectively. A total of 13 students, including seven from Namakkal district, sha­red the top three ranks.

Jayasuriya S from Vidyaa Vikas Boys High­er Secondary School, Namakkal and Abinesh S from Greenpark matriculation higher secondary school, Namakkal shared the first spot with a score of 1189 of 1200 marks.

Palaniraj S from Vidyaa Vikas Boys Higher Seco­ndary School, Namakkal and Akalya R from Sri Vijay Vidyalaya matriculation higher secondary school, Hosur shared the second place with 1188 marks. Nine other students shared the third spot.

But Chennai girl is ‘unofficial’ topper

Neither happy-go-lucky ch­a­racter nor a personal tr­a­gedy at home could stop S. Ka­avya (17) from attaining glory in her Plus-2 examination. Kaavya, who scored 1192 out of total 1200 ma­rks, may not officially be the top ranker of the state, but she had every reason to be happy on Thursday, as she has scored 100 per cent in four subjects. Inte­re­s­t­i­n­g­ly, this Chennai girl, who studied French as her second language, has scored th­ree marks more than the official state topper.

Only child of bank manager father A. Shanmugam and housewife mother S. Sh­anthi, Kaavya, who sco­red full marks in Comm­e­rce, Accountancy, Business Maths and Economics has decided to become a chartered accountant. “I am not going to join any college. I have already started att­ending classes for CA foundation course,” she said, adding that studying in London School of Eco­no­mics is her dream.

Kaavya, who was class captain of 12 C at Rosary Ma­triculation Higher Seco­ndary School in Santhome, developed interest in vario­us subjects at a very you­ng age. She completed her BA in Hindi through priva­te ex­ams and holds gr­a­de-3 ce­rtificate for guitar and gr­a­de-2 certificate for dru­ms fr­­om Trinity College Lo­n­d­on. This apart, she al­so pl­a­ys chess and enjoys tr­­y­i­ng out new recipes. Her ne­xt ta­­­rget is to learn swimming­.

“She is a very friendly person. As a class captain she never showed off her power,” said S. Sathvigha, who studied with Kaavya fr­om LKG. Their class te­acher Elizabeth Rani, who taught commerce and acc­o­untancy, praised Kaav­ya for her obedient, sincere and hard working attitude. “Her hand writing and presentation would be neat. She always finished within top three ranks in the class,” Ms Rani added.

School principal Mary Zacharia pointed out that the school has introduced continuous assessment programme last year, which seems to have yielded res­ults. “We started compulsory morning test (7.30-8.30 am) and special coaching in the evening (2.30-3.30 pm). It has proved helpful,” she said, adding that the school used to achieve lot of state first ranks earlier, but this year’s result was its best performance in the last one decade.

Meanwhile Kaavya’s mother Shanthi dedicated her daughter’s success to her sister’s son, Jayendra Prabhu, who died after meeting with an accident when Kaavya was in the midst of her exams. “We had to leave Kaavya in the care of our neighbours and attend my nephew’s funeral. Despite our absence and tragedy in the family, she managed to score well in the exam,” Shanthi added.

90 government, private schools get 100% pass

Of the 400-odd schools (government and private) in Chennai city over 90 have secured 100 per cent pass percentage.

According to an analysis provided by the directorate of government examinations, several government schools had a pass percentage of over 80 per cent. Some private schools like Little Flower Convent higher school for deaf and blind, A. V. Meiyappan matriculation higher secondary school, Jai Gopal Hindu Vidyalaya matriculation higher secondary school, West Mambalam, Shri A Ganesan matriculation higher secondary school, Velachery Sri Krishnaswamy matriculation higher secondary school, KK Nagar and several others scored 100 per cent results.

Correspondent of a private matriculation school in Chennai says its obvious that city schools would produce 100 per cent results as it had better faculty, infrastructure and especially electricity for students to work in the laborato-ries.

“There is disparity even in the city with top schools scoring more marks and some schools located in northern suburbs securing less marks”, another administrator said.

source: http://www.deccanchroincle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> News> Current Affairs / by N. Arun Kumar / S. Sujatha, DC / May 10th, 2013