By IANS
New Delhi : Although the general mood was that of celebration after the declaration of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 results Tuesday morning, low English scores brought disappointment to many students.
Although Aditi Nayar of Gyan Bharati School in south Delhi scored an aggregate of 80 percent, she is far from happy with her English score.
"She was confident of getting at least 90 in English but scored only 76," her mother Lola Nayar said.
"She is good in the subject and writes very well. However just a month before her board exams, her teacher asked her to simplify her language, to tone it down. That made her nervous and made her scrap a lot of her answers on the D-day because she thought that probably she was not writing simple English," she added.
Having scored 72 percent in English instead of 80 as per his expectations, Chaitanya Dogra of Mother's International is very unhappy.
"I got an aggregate of 83 percent but it's my English score which has disappointed me. Had I scored better in it, my aggregate would have gone up," Dogra said.
Kshitij Aron of the same school is also disheartened because of his English score. "I scored a 90 in every subject but because of my low English score, which is 66, my aggregate came down to 86 percent," he said.
Over 700,000 candidates from 7,658 schools appeared for the examinations held in India and abroad – an increase of 8.11 percent over last year.
CBSE had set up 2,490 examination centres, including 49 for foreign schools, for the smooth conduct of the examination.