Ranu Moonka with her parents. (Bhola Prasad)

Jamshedpur, May 19: The anxious moments came to an end with the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination declaring the Class X and Plus Two Board examination results today.

Hill Top School, Telco, tallied the best scores among all others. DBMS English School, Sacred Heart Convent and Kerala Samajam Model School (KSMS) also shared the spotlight as students secured exceptionally good marks both in ICSE and ISC.

This year, girls outshone boys to grab the top slots unlike last year when the boys had outperformed the girls.

More than 5,000 students appeared for the two examinations from Jamshedpur this year. Most city schools put up a commendable show, but could not better last year’s score. Most schools also notched up 100 per cent pass percentage.

Sumona Kundu of Hill Top School secured the highest among all ICSE examinees with a staggering 98 per cent. The second position was shared by Anurag Ranjan and Rohit Kumar of Rajendra Vidyalaya and Hill Top School, respectively. The two secured 97.8 per cent. The third position in ICSE was again grabbed by Pratik Das of Hill Top School with 97.6 per cent.

In ICSE commerce section, Ranu Moonka of KSMS scored 95.80 per cent followed by Garima Agarwal and Varsha Jaluka from the same school.

In ISC, Rabi Shankar Guha of DBMS English School scored the highest in the science with 97 per cent. The second position was bagged by Ritwik Moitra with 96.25 per cent.

The third position in the city was secured by Dhawal Thakkar of Loyola School and Anish Agarwal of DBMS English School with 95.5 per cent.

In the commerce stream, the highest, 96.75 per cent, was secured by Saumya Raj of Sacred Heart Convent School while the second place went to Ritika Das of Hill Top School with 96.50 per cent. The third ranked in the ISC commerce stream was Sainy Khanna of DBMS English School.

Another student of Sacred Heart Convent School, B. Janaki, stood first in the arts stream with 94.5 per cent, followed by Gulmohur School’s Nidhi Kiran with 92.5 per cent. Manprit Kaur of Loyola School scored 91.8 per cent.

“I am so excited. The fact that we have done it shows that our efforts have paid off. All the credit goes to the students and teachers. It is their hard work that has yielded results. We will follow a similar strategy now. We will carry forward the consistency with good planning. We have been successful as we all worked towards a common dream,” said Puneeta B. Chouhan, principal of Hill Top School.

“The results are satisfactory. We have not yet analysed the reasons and the weak points but I think students have done well. However, the ICSE results could have been better,” said Ashu Tiwary, principal of Motilal Nehru Public School.

Students started pouring into the cyber cafes from 2pm though the results were declared at 3pm. Initially, schools faced difficulty downloading the results due to network congestion. Though the parents were quite satisfied, students seemed to yearn for more marks as they were quite not happy with their individual performances. In many schools, majority of students scored over 90 per cent.

“I have done well, but it could be even better. I got 99 in mathematics, but expected 100. It was a point where I was disappointed. Otherwise the results are good,” said Barnali Mitra, ISC science student of Loyola School who notched up a score of 93.75 per cent.