The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared the results for class 10 and 12 board exams on Tuesday, May 13. In the CBSE class 12 board exam, girls outshone boys with over five percentage points, according to examination controller Sanyam Bhardwaj.
This year, 88.39 percent candidates have cleared the class 12 board exam, marginally up from last year’s pass percentage of 87.98 per cent. While girls have achieved a pass percentage of 91.64 percent, that of boys stood at 85.70 per cent. Transgender candidates have scored 100 per cent pass percentage against last year’s 50 per cent.
While 1,11,544 candidates have scored above 90 percent marks, 24,867 candidates have scored above 95 percent. Over 1.29 lakh candidates have been placed in compartment. A total of 16,92,794 candidates had appeared for the class 12 board exam.
Vijayawada emerged as the top-performing district across India in class 12 board exam with a pass percentage of 99.60 percent, followed by Trivandrum at 99.32 percent and Chennai at 97.39 percent.
In the class 10 board exam, 93.66 percent of the 42 lakh students who wrote the exam, passed with girls outshining boys by over 2 percentage points. Over 1.99 lakh candidates scored above 90 percent marks while over 45,000 candidates secured above 95 percent.
Trivandrum region has performed the best in CBSE class 10 results followed by Vijayawada, Bengaluru, Chennai and Pune. In the list of 17 districts released by CBSE, Guwahati is at the bottom with a pass percentage of 84.14 per cent.
Students can access their scores online on cbseresults.nic.in and digilocker.gov.in.
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