DUBAI // Hard work and a constant drive to improve are the key factors for achieving a high success rate in the CBSE exams, according to the owner of a top-performing Indian school. This year pupils at the Indian High School in Oud Metha helped to boost their school’s exam performance with more than a third of them achieving 90 per cent or above in the tests.
Ashok Kumar, the school’s chief executive, praised the hard work of pupils and teachers alike after record-breaking CBSE results.
“We are, of course, delighted with the success of our pupils and each year we are seeing our results improve,” he said.
“The credit goes to the hard work of our staff and the pupils themselves, but you can’t sit on your laurels, you have to keep trying to get better and improve.”
This year IHS pupils are believed to have topped the CBSE Grade 12 results in the UAE for science and the arts, with second place in the commerce stream.
“Every year, once the results are out, we sit down and do an analysis and review of our performance and look at areas we can improve,” Mr Kumar said.
And he said the school’s performance was achieved without the need for extracurricular lessons.
“It’s all based in the normal lessons, but we focus on group teaching, collaboration among the students and giving them the tools to learn,” he said.
The system seems to be working, with a 100 per cent pass rate for all 527 boys and girls who took the exams.
According to the school, 99.8 per cent were placed in the first division of results.
The results were an improvement on last year, with 37 per cent of pupils attaining 90 per cent or above and 10 per cent achieving higher than 95 per cent.
This compares with 60 per cent of pupils scoring more than 85 per cent and above and 77.4 per cent scoring 80 per cent or above last year.
The improved results are also based on a higher number of pupils taking the exams this year compared with 2014.
“Each year our students are raising the bar and we have been consistently improving on a yearly basis,” said Mr Kumar.
“We are very proud of the success that we have enjoyed over the last few years but are just as determined to be even more successful next year.”
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