Bhopal: 90% clear CBSE exam; humanities student Parul shines with 97% marks
Sagar Public School, Gandhi Nagar, student Parul Palod has scored the highest marks in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 examination in Bhopal. The result for the examination was announced on Monday afternoon.
A student of humanities, Palod scored 97% marks. Just behind her is Delhi Public School student Prakhar Jain with 96.8% marks (science stream). Carmel Convent School student Aarushi Kothari of commerce steam secured the third rank with 96.6 %.
Though the central board does not declare officially announce the toppers’ list, according to information provided by the CBSE-affiliated schools in Bhopal, an average of 90% students cleared the Class 12 examination from the state capital.
The top ten positions have been occupied by as many as 22 students and of them 14 are girls.
Science stream students, especially 13 students having mathematics, have made it to the toppers list, while there are only four students from the commerce stream.
The commerce stream students till last year were leading in the merit list.
“This year students of physics, chemistry and mathematics (PCM), scored well as compared to commerce students. Generally, commerce students score well due to physical education in their syllabus, but this year, I don’t know why, the percentage of many students dropped due to average marks in physical education,” Delhi Public School (DPS) principal Ajay Sharma said.
“Many students had opted for the newly introduced legal studies subject, but this option did not do much good to them,” he said.
Less time to read?
Try Quickreads
-
Not aware of ED chargesheet's contents, says Karnataka Cong chief DK Shivakumar
Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar, who is slated to appear before a Delhi court later this week in connection with a money laundering case, on Tuesday said Shivakumar is not aware about the contents of Enforcement Directorate's charge sheet against him and is yet to receive a copy of it. A Delhi court last month summoned him and others in a money laundering case registered against him in 2018.
-
Bengaluru logs 887 Covid cases; health dept says positives include backlog cases
Bengaluru logged 887 of Karnataka's 968 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, compared to 592 (of 617 in the state) the day before. The health department said Tuesday's positives included backlog cases which could not be ported from Indian Council for Medical Research database due to a technical glitch. Data indicated that 337 people were declared to have recovered from Covid in the state, of whom 293 were from Bengaluru.
-
Deserted streets, downed shutters as Udaipur remains on edge | Watch
Streets wore a deserted look and shops remained closed amid eerie calm in Udaipur on Wednesday, the first morning after a man was beheaded for supporting former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, who was suspended from the party earlier this month for her controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad.
-
Four killed after tower crane collapse in Navi Mumbai, 2 others critical
In a tragic incident, four persons including two labourers, one crane operator and a car driver, died due to a crane accident Navi Mumbai on Tuesday evening. They working at an under construction site of City and Industrial Development Corporation's Taloja phase 2 project in Navi Mumbai The accident occurred after the tower crane used to transport construction materials atop Taloja collapsed from the 14th floor and landed on them.
-
NIA arrests two from Jammu and Kashmir for cross-LoC trade, terror funding
The NIA has arrested two accused in Jammu & Kashmir in the cross-LoC trade and terror funding case. Earlier, the NIA had conducted multiple raids across the Valley in the terror-funding case. NIA spokesman in a statement said that on Monday the NIA arrested two accused Tanveer Ahmad Wani of Achagoza, Rajpora, Pulwama and Peer Arshad Iqbal, alias Ashu of Khwaja Bagh, Baramulla.
