The results of the Class-X examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) were announced on Tuesday.
The Bhubaneswar region of the board registered a pass percentage of 89.27. While 77,099 students had appeared for the examination, 68,828 of them came out successful.
Girls outshone boys in the examination in the region with 91.36 per cent of them having emerged successful against 87.77 per cent of boys.
In All-India level, four students shared the top position. Prakhar Mittal from DPS Gurgaon, Rimzhim Agarwal from R P Public School, Bijnor; Nandini Garg from Scottish International School, Shamli; and Sreelakshmi G from Bhavan’s Vidyalaya, Cochin, topped the results with 499 marks. The overall pass percentage was 86.70, with girls outdoing boys by 3.35 per cent. Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai and Ajmer emerged as top three regions pass percentage-wise, scoring 99.60, 97.37 and 91.86, respectively.
A total of 131,493 students crossed the 90-per cent mark while 27,476 scored more than 95 per cent out of more than 16 lakh who appeared for the examination.
Students from 17,567 schools from across the country and abroad had taken the examination at 4,460 centres.