Assam Valley School’s excellent results

For the fifth consecutive year the assam valley school (AVS) Tezpur, Asom, has excelled in the class X and XII school leaving public examinations of the Delhi-based Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE). AVS sent up 193 pupils for both public examinations and all candidates were declared successful.

According to an AVS press note, the 112 students who wrote the ICSE (class X) exam averaged 87.7 percent with 49 scoring over 90 percent. Moreover the 81 AVS students who wrote the ISC (class XII) exam averaged 86.5 percent with 29 averaging 90 percent plus.

“While we recognise the significance of public examinations and delight in the creditable CISCE results, at AVS we are committed to the larger cause of inspiring the young to lead society to new possibilities in a rapidly-changing world,” says the school’s headmaster D.N.A. Mountford who described the impressive showing of AVS students in the ICSE and ISC exams as among the best produced by any residential school in India.