A dozen 499s reflect ICSE shift to critical thinking

Kolkata: Writing to-the-point answers and becoming accustomed to application-based, critical-thinking questions reflected in ICSE results, highlighted several school heads after CISCE declared its class 10 boards results on Thursday. This year, the pass percentage stood at 99.18, a 0.04% rise from last year's. In Bengal, 44,410 students took the exam, out of whom 43,897 passed. The 12 youngsters, who scored 499 out of 500, are Irene Mitra from Calcutta Girls' High School, Nandini Seal from Modern High, Aarav Goenka and Shreyansh Das from The Heritage School, Arhon Guha Majumder and Saurangi Banerjee from Garden High, Arkadeep Banerjee from Ram Mohan Mission School, Aranya Ghosh from Sri Aurobindo Institute of Education, Noirrhit Basu from St Augustine's Day School, Barrackpore, Nipabithi Dutta from St Xavier's School, East Burdwan, Raunak Kumar from St Michael's School and Dibyendu Pramanik from Auxilium Convent School, Siliguri.At Don Bosco, Park Circus, of the 199 students who appeared for the exam, 106 scored above 90%. At Calcutta Girls', 124 out of 126 students scored above 90%. At La Martiniere for Girls, 108 out of 208 students scored above 90%, at Ram Mohan Mission, 90 out of 207 candidates secured 90% and above, at South City International School, 36 of 101 scored above 90% and at Julien Day School, Ganganagar, 40 of 123 students scored above 90%. Principals pointed out a large number of students scored very high this time. Ram Mohan Mission principal Sujoy Biswas said, "Our students have done extremely well. They are getting accustomed to the new question pattern and moving away from rote learning."St Xavier's Collegiate School principal Fr Roshan Tirkey said, "We focused on presentation and taught them to add something unique to their answers, not to rote learn. We taught them to write to-the-point answers, which is important in the changed pattern as evaluators look for certain phrases, not quantity but quality." St Augustine's Day School, Shyamnagar, principal Rodney Borneo said, "Students who practised scored well."DPS Newtown principal Ambica Mehra said, "The new question pattern, with its focus on application and conceptual clarity, played to our students' strengths. These results reaffirm our commitment to nurturing true understanding and academic excellence."
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