Girls have also fared better as far as the overall pass percentage is concerned. (File)
The Central Board Of Secondary Education or the CBSE delcared the results for Class 12th today on its official website - cbse.nic.in. Over 11 lakh students appeared in the CBSE exams this year that were held from March 5 to April 27. This year, the CBSE recorded a pass percentage of 83.01 per cent. A total of 11,84,386 students appeared for the exam and 9,18,763 students cleared the Class 12 CBSE exam. The pass percentage has increased by nearly 1 per cent as compared to last year (82.02 per cent). A total of 91,818 students - 8.3 per cent - have got a compartment.
Meghna Srivatsava, the Class 12 CBSE topper this year, has scored 499 marks. She is a student of Step By Step School in Noida and is from Humanities stream. The second position was bagged by another girl, Anoushka Chand, also a humanities stream student from a school in Ghaziabad. She got 498 marks out of 500. The third position is shared by six girls who have secured 497 marks. So for the top three positions, there are seven girls.
Girls have also fared better as far as the overall pass percentage is concerned. The
pass percentage for girls is 88.31 percent while for boys, the pass percentage is 78.99 per cent.
In the differently-abled category, A Vijay Ganesh from Kerela topped the Class 12 CBSE exams with 482 marks.
Among the top 10 best performing regions, the top three regions are Trivandrum with 97.32 pass per cent, Chennai with 93.87 pass per cent and Delhi with 89 percent pass per cent.