Annual tradition continues as girls outshine boys in both examinations
Dimapur, May 2 (EMN): The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) on Thursday announced the results of High School Leaving Certificate (class 10) and Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate exams.
In HSLC exam, Wangshitemjen Ozukum of Queen Mary Higher Secondary School, Mokokchung emerged as the topper with 98%. Twenty-one students shared the top 10 slots in HSLC result.
According to the NBSE, 15835 HSLC candidates qualified out of 23189 with a success percentage of 68.29%. In the previous year, the success percentage was 66.01%.
“The girls have again done better with 8194 girls qualifying and 7641 boys qualifying the examination. In the Top 20 list, there are 57 candidates out of which 30 are boys and the rest i.e. 27 are girls. Eighty-three schools secured 100% qualified/pass percentage. Out of 83, 70 are private schools and 13 are government schools. This year, 24 schools have zero/nil result out of which 22 are government schools and 2 private schools,” the NBSE informed.
The performance of government schools with success percentage of 43.32% was better than last year’s 40.77%. There were 1115 students who secured 80% and above marks percentage; seventeen were from government schools. In 2018, there were only seven.
“In terms of district wise performance for government schools, Kohima district again topped the table with a percentage of 61% followed by Phek district at 53%. Kiphire and Longleng district is at the bottom with 10%.
In respect of private schools, Kohima district is at the top with a percentage of 88% followed by Mokokchung at 84%,” the NBSE informed.
In Higher Secondary, the domination by girls continued: in the three streams, two of the toppers were girls. Across all streams, the pass percentage of girls was 81.93% and the boys’ 71.89%.
Eight institutions under Arts stream, one under Science stream and three under Commerce stream secured 100% pass result. The overall percentage in Arts stream was 74.44%, Commerce stream 74.68% and Science stream 81.37%.
The toppers were: Imtijungla Pongen of Christian Higher Secondary School, Dimapur in Arts; Suhana Begum of MGM Higher Secondary School, Dimapur in Commerce; and Ananya Kumar Das of St. John Higher Secondary Residential School, Dimapur in Science.
The toppers of 2019
All work and no play…
Our Correspondent
Mokokchung, May 2 (EMN): Not many HSLC toppers are winners of the best player award in junior football tournaments. But this year, 16-year-old Wangshitemjen Ozukum has managed to spring a surprise.
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After amassing 588 marks, with a percentage of 98%, the diminutive-looking student of Queen Mary Higher Secondary School, Mokokchung has topped this year’s HSLC results. He is the eldest among the three children of Tulumatsung and Opangmenla.
“Study hard so that you do not regret tomorrow; but first and foremost, let God be your guiding force in every step,” said Ozukum while interacting with reporters in Mokochung.
The topper said that the guiding force behind his success was God. “Without God’s guidance and blessing, I would not have achieved it; and for my future endeavours also, I need God’s continued guidance,” he said.
Ozukum also said that the encouragements received from his parents and relatives motivated him to study harder. He acknowledged the tireless dedication of teachers in the school to help him secure the top position.
“Apart from studies I play football, I try to invest 60% of my time in studies and the rest 40% in sport activities. I just expend few dedicated hours for studies and put my mind in full concentration and try to understand the subject,” he said.
A brilliant student since childhood, Ozukum is also an upcoming football talent He has participated in inter-school and inter-ward tournaments in the district and has won many individual laurels, such the best player in many tournaments.
Though he has opted to pursue Science stream, Ozukum is yet to decide what he wants to be. He is keeping his options open and ‘prefer taking his own time to explore every possibility while pursuing further studies to achieve his goal.’
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Eighteen-year-old Imtijungla Pongen, who trumped 11860 fellow Arts students to top the table and secured the highest mark in Alternative English with 94, said she did not expect to be even in the Top 10. Neither did her two elder sisters and her mother, Tianungla Pongen.
But her teachers had expectations. So did her father, Ningsangwapa Pongen; he expected his daughter to feature in the Top 10, at least.
Her academic success is the outcome of spending six to seven hours a day in study. "I worked hard enough that God helped me with this blessing,” she said.
Imtijungla plans to take up Political Science as her subject.
Her mother said the only advice she gave to her daughter was not to compromise with her health while studying and to manage time properly. Her father said that, besides the daughter’s efforts, it was God’s blessing that made her to standout among so many students this year.
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Another 18-year-old, Ananya Kumar Das outshone 2641 Science students by securing 94.60%, and also the highest marks in Biology with 96.
Son of Mahua and AK Das, his father is a Chemistry teacher at St. John Higher Secondary Residential School. He has been teaching there for the past 22 years.
Das aspires to be a doctor and he is preparing for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). A Top 4 rank holder in the HSLC exam, he was confident that he would be among the top 10 but not the numero uno.
His sister also secured the Top 1 rank in the Science stream in 2014 from the same school. Das said he balanced his time with his interest for cricket and photography even during his exam days and never feared for exams. He shared this simple mantra: "hard work never disappoints.”
His father said, 'my instinct was that he will be in Top 1 and even the late director of the school Temsurenla was confident of his securing Top 1. It is the shared efforts of the teachers and not his alone.’ He said that Nagaland’s education system was better than most other states as the state board has no forced making system, and is open to opinion and suggestions.
The commerce stream was owned by Suhana Begum from MGM Higher Secondary School. She secured the top position with total marks of 480 (96%). She also secured the highest mark in Business Studies with 97 and in Hindi with 93.
The 20-year-old told
that her parents, who run an apparel store at Hazi Park in Dimapur, struggled a lot to provide education to their seven children.
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She said that she had only one thing on her mind: to make her parents proud through her performance in the exam. It was the trust and belief of her parents and teachers that motivated her, she said.
Begum singled out one teacher named Nimmi who, she said, helped her overcome depression and anxiety. “Being a student, I was depressed and overburdened with my studies. She was the one who made me overcome the obstacles,” she acknowledged.
Begum said she had no specific routine to study. “Everyone has a misconception about toppers having a routine. The truth is, when you have the interest in you, you will ultimately sit to study and you will do well. You need to push yourself to study.”
She has been studying in the same school for 14 years, from lower kindergarten to class 12. In 2017, she also secured Top 4 position in HSLC examination. “I am proud to say that I am leaving my school after a successful journey,” she maintained.
Begum aspires to be a chartered accountant and has applied for seat at the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh. “Only living for yourself is being selfish. You need to give your life to your parents, as they were the ones who gave you life. You need to understand the hard work they are doing and try to pay them back by working hard and scoring well.”
She also loves writing and painting.
