Many students in the city got an enviable score of 100 per cent, after they were granted 25 additional marks for sports. The sports marks coupled with the Best of Five rule ensured that the students managed to get a perfect score. Schools were also not far behind in achieving the 100 per cent milestone, as nearly 682 schools from the 3,353 in the city got a perfect pass percentage.
Some of the 100 per cent scorers from the city and Thane are Shivani Shivtarkar, Niel Wagle, Shweta Dhamankar and Rushabh Dalvi from Balmohan Vidyalaya in Dadar, Sanjana Nene from St. John the Baptist School in Thane, and Palak Gupta from Thane’s SES High School.
According to officials from the school education ministry, this trend will not be seen next year, as the government has decided to do away with granting sports marks to every student who participates in sports. In November 2011, the government passed an order wherein the allocation of sports marks was restricted to only to those students who failed in a particular subject. The motive behind the decision was to cut down the misuse of the scheme.
“In 2008, 627 students availed the extra marks. In 2009, the figure jumped to 854, in 2010 to 1,296, and in 2011, 1,077 students got the extra marks,” said an official from the school education minister’s office.
Over 682 schools in the city got 100 per cent results. “It has been the effort of the state to ensure that schools turn in perfect scores. The improvement of facilities and infrastructure in most schools has resulted in hundreds of them turning in perfect scores,” said J.M. Abhyankar, former chairman of the MSBSHSE, Pune.
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City students get the most 90% score
Age Correspondent
Mumbai, June 13
Mumbai had reason to be proud about the SSC results declared on Wednesday, as it had the most number of students scoring above 90 per cent from among all the nine regions. Though the city stood fourth with 88.94 per cent in the overall pass percentage, like in the HSC results, the city took the honours with nearly 7,000 students scoring above 90 per cent out of the 3,11,896 students who appeared from the city. Statistics reveal that nearly 19,000 students have scored in the range of 80-89 per cent and 65,000 in the range of 70-79 per cent.
Speaking about the achievement, R.R. Bhise, said that this year the number of malpractices and copy cases registered had also gone down. This year Mumbai witnessed only 51 copy cases, which included three cases of dummy candidates.