1.75L to take CBSE exam
This year more students writing from TN.
Chennai: Over 1.75 lakh Class X and more than 80,000 Class XII students from about 2,500 CBSE schools in the Chennai region are expected to sit for the board exams along with other students across the country from March 1 for two weeks.
With the increase in the number of private schools in Tamil Nadu getting affiliated to CBSE this year more students from the state will be taking the exam.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle on Monday, D.T. Sudarshan Rao, regional officer (Chennai region), CBSE says that the number of students who take the exam from the Chennai region had seen an increase of about 25,000 Class X students and over 10,000 Class XII students as the Board had affiliated over 300 additional schools this year. “We also see an increase of students from Tamil Nadu as more than 50 schools have got affiliated to us this year,” he says.
CBSE’s Chennai region comprises the states and union territories of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Daman & Diu, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Maharashtra and Puducherry.
Dr R. Kishore Kumar, head of the St. Johns International Residential School in the city, says that Tamil Nadu had seen a silent revolution in the recent past wherein parents made their kids migrate from private matriculation school toCBSE as they considered the latter to be superior.
“When you have larger migration from one stream to other the number has to increase, which has happened in this case,” he adds. This year over 12.5 lakh Class X students and more than 10 lakh Class XII students from various parts of the country are expected to write the government examination.
According to sources in the Directorate of Government Examinations in Tamil Nadu, they too might start examinations for state board students mostly in the first week of March.