Oh boy! Girls top CBSE board exams again

JUDGEMENT DAY: CBSE announces Class XII resutls for Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad regions on Friday.

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New Delhi: Girls once again outshone boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 exams, in which the overall pass percentage was 80.91 percent. The pass percentage this year is an increase of 0.27 percent from last year.

"The total pass percentage of girls in CBSE Class 12 exams this year is 85.44, while that of boys is 77.59. Girls, as usual, have outshone the boys in this year's performance too," said CBSE chairperson Ashok Ganguly.

This year, 549,344 candidates registered for the CBSE Class 12 board exams in India as well as abroad: an increase of 9.18 percent since last year. In Delhi alone, 160,414 students had appeared for the exams.

A total of 384 students, including 193 girls, scored over 95 per cent marks in the examinations while 8,252 students managed to cross the 90 per cent mark. Among those who scored over 90 per cent marks, girls were 4,190.

Out of the six exam regions, Chennai topped the list of past followed by Ajmer, Delhi, Panchkula, Allahabad and Guwahati. Except for Allahabad and Panchkula regions which recorded a dip in their pass percentage, all other regions improved their results this year compared to last year.

Girls outshone boys yet again in the examinations, recording an impressive pass percentage of 85.44 per cent. Boys were seven per cent down with a pass percentage of 77.59 percentage.

There was an increase of 0.27 per cent in the number of candidates who registered for the examinations. A total of 5,49,344 candidates registered for the exams.

(With inputs from IANS and PTI)