Nagpur: Three Nagpur schools affiliated to Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) on Sunday achieved cent per cent result in the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) exam of Std X held offline after a two-year pandemic break.
Rashida Aliasgar Saifee of MSB Educational Institute with 98.20% marks topped ICSE examination in Vidarbha region. Second position was secured by Mubaraka Moiz Mehtawala of the same school by scoring 97.80% marks . MSB students outshone others overall as third position too is shared by their students Aziz Moiz Sunelwala and Taher Nuruddin Kiranawala who scored 97.40% marks each.
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) declared the ICSE or Class 10 exams results at 5 pm on Sunday. Thirty-one students of MSB have scored 90% and above marks, 15 students scored 80% and above marks in the class. Rashida Aliasgar Saifee has scored 100/100 in History Civics and Arts. Taher Nuruddin Kiranawala and Husaina Mustansir Ali Husain scored 100/100 in History & Civics and Biology. Husain Mohammad Lodhger has scored 100/100 in History and Civics. Mubaraka Moiz Mehtawala has scored 100/100 in Biology.
Similarly The Chanda Devi Saraf School and Junior College witnessed 21 students scoring above 90% marks with Anish Hota topping the school scoring 97%. Samegh Sanjay Solao and Samyak Vinod Dahat scored 95%, Adit Dinesh Shahu scored 94.4% and Khushi Diplak Songote scored 94%.
Similarly Marie Poussepin’s Academy (ICSE) students too came with flying colours with Rishabh Ukas stood a top scorer who got 94.6% marks. He was followed by Harnoor Kaur Hazra who scored 94% marks.
The exam was held in two semesters for the first time in the Council’s history. Students appearing in both the semesters followed by internal assessment only were declared successful. The first semester was held last year in winter.
Seventh-Day Adventist Higher Secondary School on Mount Road said they achieved 100% results. Its topper is Jatin Patil with 95.6%.
Overall, girls did better than boys with a pass percentage of 99.98% across the country. Boys achieved a pass percentage of 99.97%. Over 2.3 lakh students appeared for the exam. The ICSE exam was held in 61 written subjects of which 20 are Indian languages, nine foreign languages and one classical language.