Tuesday 23 / April / 2024
Muscat: Girls have outsmarted the boys to grab top marks in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams, results of which were announced on Saturday.
At Indian School Muscat, 16 students scored 100 per cent in sculpture, psychology, computer science, engineering, graphics and chemistry. Out of this group, 14 are girls and two are boys.
At Indian School Seeb, Jane Saldanha topped the school with an aggregate 96.2 per cent and an A1 in all subjects. Ayisha Thasnima was second with 94 per cent and Anagha Suresh third with 93.6 per cent. All of them are girls.
Also at Indian School Darsait, the topper of biology, chemistry and computer science was a girl, Aishwarya Gayathri, according to Dr. Sridevi P. Thashnath, Principal of Indian School Darsait.
In the commerce stream at ISD, Vigneshwar Arul Selvan secured the first position with 92 per cent, followed by Jesbi Suja Babu, a girl, with 89.6 per cent, while Lino Cherian Binoy grabbed the third position with 89.4 per cent, according to results.
At Indian School Ghubra, Gayatri Mainkar and Karthik Girish earned 96.4 per cent and topped the list in the science stream.
The top position in the commerce stream was, again, taken by a girl, Gayathri Venkatanarayanan who earned 95.6 per cent.
At Indian School Muladha, Ashisha Ann Saji, another girl, clinched the top position in the commerce stream with an aggregate score of 94.4 per cent.
However, in the science stream the first position is shared by a boy, Umair Asif Siddiqui, and a girl, Neelima Vinod, with an aggregate score of 92.8 per cent.
“Girls are sincere here and they take studying very seriously,” S I Shareef, Principal of Indian School Muladha, told Times of Oman. He added that most of these students’ parents had also been enrolled in this school and now belong to the middle class. “So the girls know the importance of their studies and they study very hard,” S I Shareef said.
At Indian School Muladha, 33 students in the science stream appeared for their exams, of which 25 were girls and eight boys, while in the commerce stream 47 students have appeared, of which 25 are girls.
Indian School Wadi Kabir, however, is the only school to have students who top in both the science and commerce streams in Oman in class XII Board Examinations. Of the 120 students of the science stream in Indian School Wadi Kabir, Vishaal Udandarao has topped the list of successful candidates with an aggregate of 98 per cent.
Of the 122 students of the commerce stream, a girl, Keziah stood first with 96 per cent aggregate.
Meanwhile, at Indian School Salalah the top honours were shared between a boy and girl. While Rubin Jacob topped in the science stream, Subha topped in the commerce stream.
At Indian School Sohar, however, the boys swept all the awards.
In the science stream, Swapnil Gupta scored 95.8 per cent, and in the commerce stream Jowan M. Jomon scored 86 per cent to stand first.
Teachers say that there are several reasons why girls out-perform their male counterparts in the examinations. “First, girls read more than boys. Secondly, girls spend more time on homework and are every methodical and sincere, which helps them during examinations,” said a teacher.
Students who have excelled, however, are very happy. “It feels great to score good marks. All my hard work has paid off,” one of them said.
Similar is the case of Indian School Nizwa where all the toppers were girls.
Prerna Barik got the highest with 94.8 per cent overall and is the topper for the academic session 2015-16, closely followed by Reshna Reji with 86.6 per cent in the second position and Manahil Ameen with 84.4 per cent in the third position.
