Recently Board results were announced. First it was CISCE and then CBSE. We all know that CISCE is much smaller as compared to CBSE in terms of schools and students taking exams. If CISCE will have two lakhs then CBSE will have 20 L students. These are approximate figures.

Most schools, students, parents, teachers and other stakeholders are looking at results from grades point of view. All want to make headlines and boast of toppers. This has been the trend for long now and mindset works that way even though we all know that in long run learning is more important than marks. Be that as it may let’s do a brief analysis.

Generally results of CISCE is better than CBSE for some of the obvious reasons notwithstanding the fact that their curriculum and syllabus is claimed to be a shade tougher than CBSE !

1. Pass Percentage
– CISCE – ICSE – 99.09%; ISC- 99.02%
– CBSE – Cl X- 93.66%; Cl XII- 88.39%
– Girls have performed better than boys in both bds
– Transgenders have 95% in Cl X and 100% in Class XII in CBSE Bd

2. Region
– CISCE- ICSE- Western top; Southern next
– ISC – Southern top; Western next
– CBSE – Southern region (Trivandrum, Vijaywada, Chennai and Bangalore) on top; followed by Delhi, Prayagraj and Guwahati

3. Foreign Students
– CISCE- 100%
– CBSE – 98.57% Cl X and 95.01% Cl XII

4. Toppers CBSE
– Cl X – 90% plus – 8.5%
– Cl X- 95% plus – 1.92%
– Cl XII – 90% plus – 6.59%
– Cl XII – 95% plus – 1.47%

5. Compartments CBSE
– Cl X- 5.96%
– Cl XII – 7.56%

6. Performance School Types – Cl X/XII
– JNVs- 99.49%/ 99.29%
– KVs – 99.45%/ 99.05%
– Indep Schools – 94.17%/ 87.94%
– Govt Schools – 89.26%/ 90.48%
– Govt Aided Schools – 83.94%/ 91.57%

Observations
– Schools do their detailed analysis and come up with inferences and recommendations
– Here subject details are not available; their analysis will help finding issues with options for better combination
– Top performers doing better in Class X as compared to Class XII
– Pass percentage improving yet compartments pulling down overall results
– CISCE has better results but they have the advantage of lesser schools and most of them have good students
– Southern region doing well and that has been the trend; East and Northeast is lagging for sometime
– JNVs and KVs have been doing well; they also have the advantage of quantity and quality
– Girls have been doing well with smaller numbers in percentage terms

Recommendations
– Efforts be made to reduce and eliminate compartments; does not augur well with schools having CBSE Bds; other than medical or such pressing issues; teachers and schools must be made accountable
– State Govts should take cognisance of educational standards in areas where they are lagging
– CBSE and CISCE should come up with models to showcase learning of students in some form. Holistic report cards may be considered here also.

Inputs requested from educators on setting new paradigms to make headlines!