Bangalore's ICSE schools on top

BANGALORE: Missing the 100% mark almost by a whisker — 99.94 and 99.47%. Bangalore schools performed brilliantly in the ICSE/ISC examinations with almost all schools scoring centum results. The results were declared on Wednesday.

Class 12 students in CBSE schools too were top scorers. The overall pass percentage of Bangalore region was 97.05%. Poorna Kumar (97%) from National Public School, Indiranagar, topped the Science stream while Tanya Rath from DPS (North) emerged topper in the Commerce stream from Bangalore by scoring 95.2%.

Interestingly, of the 5,397 students who appeared for the Class 12 CBSE from Bangalore region, only 28 students failed. The Kendriya Vidyalayas performed exceedingly well with all the KVs in Bangalore clocking cent per cent results.

Mathematics proved tough for students this year with a change in the question pattern. Result: Even those students who score in their nineties went back disappointed with 75 marks.

But that was with the CBSE. Students from ICSE cracked the Mathematics paper with ease. Anumeha Ayushi from Bethany High School scored centum in the subject. Her friends Laksha Ranganath, Namitha D A and Sahaj Sawhney from the same school all scored centum in Computer Science.