14 disabled children get above 90 percent in Class 12
By IANSFriday, May 21, 2010
NEW DELHI - Fourteen disabled students were among the 199,448 children who secured above 90 percent in the Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams.
According to an official release Friday, a total of 1,304 students with disability - 249 blind, 41 deaf, 672 physically handicapped, 46 spastic children and 296 with dyslexia - applied for the Class 12 exams this year and 1,273 appeared finally.
Of these, 1,112 children passed and 14 - nine boys and five girls - scored above 90 percent. The overall pass percentage for disabled students is 87.35, up by 17.17 percent from last year’s 70.24.
Of the 14 special children who scored over 90 percent, five are from Chennai where 188 students with disability took the exams. Three children were from the national capital where the highest number - 650 disabled kids - had appeared for the exams. Of the remaining six, three are from Allahabad and three from Ajmer.
The CBSE Class 12 board exam results were declared for the Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad zones at 8 a.m. Friday. For the Ajmer, Chennai and Panchkula regions, the results were declared Wednesday.
