Chennai schools break success record

By G Saravanan

Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on May 10, 2011:

Source:http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/chennai-schools-break-success-record/273017.html

CHENNAI: The 5,800 students of the 30 Chennai Corporation-run Higher Secondary Schools have broken the record pass percentage from last year with 86.41 per cent of the students passing in the Plus Two examinations this year over 84.81 per cent in 2010 and 78.70 per cent in 2009.

Chennai Corporation officials are calling this eight percentage leap over the past two years as “phenomenal growth” and are attributing it to the impact of incentives given to students and teachers, including hefty scholarships and laptops for school-level toppers.

In 2010, 5,543 students from the civic body’s 27 higher Secondary schools had created history in the 323-year-old Corporation when 4,701 students passed the exams.

In 2011, 5,012 out of 5,800 students who appeared for the exams passed. While over the past two years, the boys’ pass percentage has remained the same, the number of girls from Corporation schools passing has risen from 82.4 per cent in 2009 (and 87.97 in 2010) to 90.49 in 2011.

The number of students securing more than 1,000 marks (out of 1200) has also increased from 135 in 2009, to 169 in 2010 and a whopping 237 in 2011. Similarly, the number of students scored centums have also recorded a marginal increase — from 11 students in 2009, 13 in 2010 and now 17 in 2011.

Of the 30 Corporation higher secondary schools, 14 have scored a pass percentage of over 90 per cent while six boast of an over 80 per cent pass percentage.

The ignominy of having the lowest pass percentage went to the Chennai Higher Secondary School, Kalyanapuram, (located at Vyasarpadi locality) with 33.33 per cent.