The pass percentage of girls in Dehradun region stood at 93.03 per cent which is much higher than 86.50 per cent of boys
As expected the Girls outsmarted the boys in the class X result of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) which was declared on Monday.
The pass percentage of girls in Dehradun region stood at 93.03 percent which is much higher than 86.50 percent of boys.
In the result, the Dehradun region of CBSE again stamped its authority over other regions of country as seven students from the region were among 13 students who secured first rank.
In Uttarakhand, Shagun Mittal of Delhi Public School (DPS), Dehradun was state topper with 497 marks out of 500.
The Dehradun region of CBSE covers all Uttarakhand and districts of Western Uttar Pradesh.
Releasing the result, the regional officer of CBSE Dehradun, Ranber Singh said that students of region have come out with flying colours.
The result shows that out of 89847 boys who appeared in the examination, 77718 cleared the examination. Similarly 53156 out of the 57141 girls were able to clear the examination.
A total of 153677 students were registered for the examination in the Dehradun region out of which 152227 students appeared in the examination.
In these examinations, 13973 students would have to sit in the compartmental examination from the Dehradun region.
The data released by the CBSE shows that with the pass percentage of 99.63 percent the Kendriya Vidhyalayas (KV) have topped the list of schools.
The Government aided schools also performed well with pass percentage of 99.23.
The students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidhayalas had a pass percentage of 98.57 while the famed private schools who charge heavy fees from the parents lag behind with only 94.15 percent.
In the Dehradun region, 1664 schools have been affiliated under the CBSE this year as compared with 1478 schools registered last year.
The board had set up 414 examination centres in the entire region.