CBSE Board Exam Results 2023: Mumbai friends score 99% each Class 12th, both aim to pursue engineering from IIT

“He has always been hard-working and sincere in his studies. He has qualified for JEE-Advanced and wishes to pursue computer science engineering for higher education. However, if his rank won’t get him a seat in his preferred IITs; he would focus on pursuing pure sciences at the Indian Institute of Science,” said Kundan’s mother Kakoli, an architect by profession.

Kundan’s engineering gene however comes from his father, who is from a civil engineering background. Even as he enjoys science, Kundan is a passionate violin player and loves to draw sketches. A keen reader, Kundan would enjoy science, especially astronomy and animal related books, but likes reading other fiction books too.

His friend Atharva, who comes from a family of engineers; is all set to become an engineer too; preferably from an IIT. Atharva is also qualified for JEE-Advanced. “I have completed schooling in ICSE board but shifted to CBSE for junior college because this curriculum will help me in competitive exams,” said Atharva, whose father is a mechanical engineer and mother is from electronics and telecommunication background. But Atharva wants to take the path of his elder brother who has just completed his Computer Science engineering from a reputed institute and has joined an international tech-giant. Atharva was expecting a good score but an exact 99 in all five subjects is certainly good news for this teenager who believes that time management and planning is essential for success and not only hard work and consistency.

In Maharashtra, a total of 32,758 students registered for the CBSE Class XII examination out of which a total 32,507 appeared for the exam that was held between February 15 to April 5. However, out of all these, 28,317 passed the exams and recorded an overall pass percentage of 87.11 per cent; indicating a sharp drop from last year’s 90.29 per cent.

Schools attribute this drop to the pandemic effect. Headmistress of the R N Podar School, Nikita Bajaj said, “This batch certainly has great pandemic effect and that is visible due to the drop in pass percentage. Not only did they spend a crucial year of Class 11 online due to the pandemic; their Class 10 board exam was cancelled. So, this was essentially their first experience of the board exam. In fact, considering the situations, the batch has done well.”

Anjali Bowen, principal of Ryan International School, said, “Despite all the measures taken to help students bridge the learning gap, it is expected that there will be some challenges when the examination pattern switches back to the earlier model. The CBSE evaluation methods place a strong emphasis on concept-based learning.”

The CBSE Board switched back to the annual examination pattern, as opposed to the semester pattern introduced last year considering pandemic conditions.

As usual girls have done better than boys. Out of a total of 17658 boys who appeared for the exam, 15057 passed the exam recording pass percentage of 82.57. Whereas out of 14849 girls who appeared for the exam from Maharashtra, 13260 passed it and recorded a passing percentage of 89.39.