A former SSLC rank holder announces this year’s results

General Education Principal Secretary Sharmila Mary Joseph who announced the SSLC results connected Friday is herself a SSLC rank-holder.

Ms. Joseph bagged the 3rd fertile successful 1986, securing 580 marks. A pupil of Holy Angels’ Convent schoolhouse successful the superior city, she worked hard and excelled successful studies. “The contention was choky successful our school. Every year, students would get apical ranks. Many of america aspired to scope the top,” she said.

In 1986, girls took the apical 3 ranks, with Ms. Joseph sharing the 3rd spot with a antheral student. That was besides the clip erstwhile the walk percent was 46.73%, dissimilar present erstwhile walk percentages person crossed 99%. “Exam unit excessively existed. The SSLC exams would beryllium held connected consecutive days, successful the greeting and afternoon. There was nary spread betwixt exams arsenic exists now.”

Asked if she would privation the fertile strategy to return, Ms. Joseph said the alteration to grades was made connected the ground of respective studies that highlighted the utmost unit that the contention to execute ranks enactment connected students. In the lawsuit of grading, it was felt that grading would enactment an extremity to examination betwixt students and labelling them, she pointed out.

After school, Ms. Joseph went connected to implicit her MBBS. She was pursuing MD erstwhile she appeared for the Civil Services examination.

Ms. Joseph, for whom the announcement was unexpected, expressed her restitution successful delivering the SSLC results. She encouraged students to acceptable ambitious goals and give themselves to their studies successful bid to prehend upcoming opportunities.