Friday, June 02, 2006

DAV Gopalapuram - India's best school


My highschool (DAV Gopalapuram, Chennai) featured recently in a Rediff article titled "Welcome to India's best school".

Excerpt - "At the Central Board of Secondary Examination's class XII board exams, DAV Boys Senior Secondary School in Gopalapuram, Chennai, has created history.All of its students passed first class with distinction; 73.3 per cent of the students secured more than 90 per cent marks; 90 students scored more than 95 per cent; 20 students scored a full 100 per cent in various subjects.

In the last 20 years, 250 students from this school have joined various Indian Institutes of Technology, on an average of 12 to 15 students joining the IITs every year.

The school also has the unique record of its students securing the all India 1st, 2nd, and 4th ranks in the same year.

In the recently announced All India Engineering Entrance Examination, DAV Gopalapuram bagged the state 2nd, 4th, 6th, 10th, 14th, 18th, 22nd and 24th ranks to get admission in the National Institute of Technology, Trichy (formerly known as the Regional Engineering College). Twenty DAV Gopalapuram students figured in the top 100.

Weekly magazine Outlook rates DAV Gopalapuram the best school in Tamil Nadu.

In the recently published CBSE class XII results, the Chennai region has topped among the five regions in India with 91.46 pass percentage and DAV Gopalapuram stands first in India."

The complete article can be read here

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