For the first time 13 students have topped jointly the All India level in the Class X results declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday.
As per the data, institution wise, Kendriya Vidyalaya has outperformed others with a pass percentage of 99.47. According to a CBSE statement, 13 boys have scored 499 out of total 500 marks. The second rank has been secured by a total of 26 students who have scored 498 out of 500. The third position has been shared by 59 students who have secured 497 marks out of 500.
Girl students have once again outshone the boys with pass percentage of 92.45 against 90.14 per cent for boys. Howerver, boys towered over girls in ranking. The transgender students have also done well in the Board exams with the pass percentage of 94.74 this year, while it was 83.33 per cent in 2017.
Also, the girls pass percentage has increased by 2.31 per cent this year. The pass percentage of boys has also registered a sharp rise of 4.82 per cent. The differently abled candidates also performed well with a pass percentage of 95.99.
As per the data compiled the CBSE, there is a steep rise of 4.40 per cent in the overall pass percentage this year. The all India pass percentage this year is at 91.10, while it was 86.70 per cent last year.
Moreover this year the Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad and Noida have large number of toppers as compared to others. However, this year there is no first ranker from the national Capital.
The toppers are Siddhant Pengoriya from Noida, Divayansh Wadhva from Noida, Yogesh Kumar Gupta from Jaunpur district, Ankur Mishra from Vasudhara Ghziabad, Vatsal Varshney from Meerut, Manya from Bhatinda, Aryan Jha from Jamnagar, Tarun Jain from Jaipur, Bhavna N Sivdas from Kerala, Ish Madan from Ghaziabad, Divjot Kaur from Haryana, Apoorva Jain from Ghaziabad and Shivani Lath from Noida are the 13 joint CBSE toppers who have scored 499 out 500 in this year results.
The pass percentage of Government schools is 71.91 per cent lower than all the other institutions. Further region wise the wise Trivandrum and Chennai have secured the top two positions with 99.85 per cent and 99.00 passing per cent. The third position has been bagged by Ajmer. However, Delhi has secured last second rank passing percentage is ninth (9th) with a pass percentage of 80.97.
As per the data the Delhi Schools have shown improvement in the CBSE results with an increase of two per cent with 80.97 per cent in comparison with the last year’s pass percentage i.e. 78.62.
In total, 1774299 students had registered for the examination this year, out of which 1694428 students have cleared the Board examinations. A total of 23697 foreign students had registered for the the CBSE board exam, out of which 23200 have passed the exam with an overall percentage of 98.75 percentage. Besides this, students with special needs have also performed well with a pass percentage of 95.99 per cent. A total of 5352 differently-abled student registered for the examination, out of which 5023 has cleared the examination.
Among the candidates with special need (CWSN), Dilwin Prince from the Devamatha CMI Public School Thirrusur has bagged the first position with a score of 493 out 500 marks. The second position has been secured by Savon Vishoy from KVS Cochin Nimmi Ved, Kerala has scored 492/500 and the third position has been secured by Irene Tresa Mathews from Christu Jayanthi Pulic School, Cochin, Kerala with 491 marks out 500.
According to the CBSE officials, 225143 students have scored above 90 per cent marks while a total number of 57256 candidates have scored above 95 per cent.
However, about 7.88 per cent student i.e. 138705 students will have to re-appear in one subject and “The date for compartment exam will be announced soon”, said CBSE official.