Tamil Nadu students raise the bar with 92.1 per cent passing Plus-2

Chennai: Even as the state board students are coming to terms with the scrapping of rankings, a record number of 8.22 lakh cleared the Plus-2 exams for which the results were declared on Friday.

The pass percentage has increased to 92.1% which is the highest ever recorded by the Plus-2 students of the state. Compared to last year, there is a slight improvement in pass percentage (0.7%).

For the first time, a transgender has cleared the exams. "Tharika is the first registered transgender student to clear the Plus-2 exams," said D.Vasundradevi, director of government examinations. As usual, the girls outperformed the boys, this year too. Among the girl students, 94.5% have cleared the exams whereas only 89.3% of the boys cleared this year.

As per the order of the state government, no state or district rank holders list was released on Friday. But the government has released the details of the students who have scored above 1,180 marks. Totally, 1,171 students have scored above 1,180 out of 1,200 this year.

The number of centums in Biology and Chemistry has reduced significantly this year. In Chemistry, it was down to 1,123 from 1,703 last year and in Biology, it is 221 from 775.

But the Physics and Maths subjects witnessed slight increase this year. Totally 187 students scored centum in Physics and 3,656 students secured full marks in Maths.

Selaiyur girl’s spectacular performance
V. Harini from Zion Matriculation School, Selaiyur emerged as the city topper with a whopping score of 1194 out of 1200.

She has opted commerce and aspires to be a Chartered Accountant for which she has already started taking classes. Talking about her success mantra, she said, ”I study for not more than three hours at a stretch. The key to good marks is concentration in class which automatically contributes to better score.”

She added that she never went to coaching classes as she listened to her teachers accurately and doubt clarification classes on Sundays was a feather in the cap.

Harini’s timetable also includes singing, reading books, gardening and sports. She cites it to be the main reason for being able to handle exam pressure. Only two months before the exam, she dedicated her whole day to books. “She is a very hard working girl. I fixed a target for her and she achieved it,” exclaimed her father, S. Varadharajan. He added that his only issue is with the state ranking announcements being pulled down, as they are not getting recognition. The authorities could have announced at least the top three students.

Harini’s score card
Accountancy – 200
Commerce – 200
Economics – 200
Business Maths – 200
English – 197
Language (French) – 197