HYDERABAD: The results of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Class X and ISC Class XII examinations for 2017 conducted by the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations were announced on Monday. A total of 1,75,299 candidates appeared for the ICSE and 98.53 per cent passed out. Of the 73,633 students who took the ISC examinations, 96.47 per cent passed.
The Southern region has the best pass percentage of 99.64 followed by Western region with a pass percentage of 99.64. The Southern region has the highest percentage of girls, 49.46 per cent, who had appeared in the ICSE examinations.
For ISC also, the Southern region has the best pass percentage of 98.97 followed by Western region having a pass percentage of 97.99. The Southern region has the highest percentage of girls at 49.98, who appeared for the exams.
Like CBSE board, even in ICSE board girls outperformed boys in the Class X exam with a percentage of 99.03 per cent whereas boys have achieved a pass percentage of 98.13. Even in Class XII of the ISC girls have done better than boys registering a pass percentage of 97.73, while boys have secured a pass percentage of 95.39 per cent.
ISC, ICSE websites crash
The much awaited ISC and ICSE results were announced on Monday at 3 pm. Having been postponed for long, anxious students and parents logged onto the official website, www.cisce.org only to see a page that displayed, ‘Service is unavailable’
“I panicked for the first ten minutes or so until I realised that it was probably because of the traffic at the server. Everyone has been waiting for these results with bated breath. I checked my results dot at 3 PM and then after half an hour by which the site was restored,” Sushaanth Kuttua, a student, told this newspaper.
The website which saw a lot of unprecedented traffic was unavailable for a few students for an hour however it was restored promptly.
“We were very worried when the site did not show up but thankfully, we had applied for the SMS alert by which we would know the results through an SMS. Once the website was back, we checked the results again,” says Maya S, a concerned parent.
