ICSE results make it fast to Net

HYDERABAD: The results of Class X of the Indian Certificate for Secondary Education (ICSE) and Class XII of the Indian School Certificate were released on Tuesday.
Unlike during Class X, SSC, results where the students were unable to access their examination score on the Internet due to heavy net traffic, it was smooth sailing for the ICSE students.
With the ICSE results being put up on the Internet for the first time, students flocked Internet centres to check their results.
School principals too deputed their staff to the Internet centres to download copies of the results put up on the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination website cisce.org at 12 noon.
While for the students, the anxiety was who among them had secured the maximum percentage of marks, for the principals it was about if they had achieved 100 per cent results or not.
"We know everyone will get a first class and most will get a distinction as well. But we are looking for the number of students who scored more than 90 per cent," said headmistress of a school in Begumpet.
"All the students in our school passed with the highest mark being 97 per cent," she added. Students themselves, though eager to know their result, did not rush to schools early as they preferred to check their marks on the Internet.
In fact, in many cases students came to know their results before the school principals and called up their teachers and principals to tell them they had passed.
By 1.30 pm most schools got their lists and they were put up on notice boards. After having checked their individual marks on the website, students started coming to schools to see how their friends have fared.
A student of Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, reached the school by 12 noon, but when he realised the results would not be put up in the school before 2 pm, he decided to check them on the Internet.
But he had to know how his classmates fared in comparison to him, so he came back to wait for the results to be displayed on the notice board and compare his performance to that of his friends.
"It''s great. We all passed," Praveen Samtaney of Geetanjali Public School exulted after scanning through the results.
The teachers of the school could not stop grinning when they realised that they had a 100 per cent result with only one student getting a second class.
The unique feature of this year''s results was that they were announced on the Internet contrary to the board''s practice of couriering them to schools.
"It was fast and easy for all of us. Now all we have to do is wait for the official marks memo that should reach us in a couple of days," she said.