School children from national boards have outperformed students from state boards in the first-ever standardised country-wide test of Class X pupils, carried out as a sample survey by the NCERT. Students from CISCE have come out to be toppers while Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu hug the basement position. NCERT surveyors visited 7216 schools, affiliated to 33 state boards and two national boards, and tested 277416 students on five subjects with a standard set of multiple choice questions. Nagaland and Goa have topped among the states while Bengal and Karnataka have followed closely. Class X students from Bengal have done the best across the nation in modern India language test, scoring 73 against a national average of 53. They have also beaten the national average in English as well as qualified it in mathematics while slipping in science and social science. The survey was conducted during the month of November 2014 and February 2015 but the results were released recently.
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