Boys outshined girls in the Class X results of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced on Saturday with a pass percentage of boys at 93.4 per cent and girls at 92.5 per cent. Boys are ahead of girls by 0.9 per cent.
Another surprise in the CBSE results was a dip of over 5 per cent in the national pass percentage.
While the top three States with a results around 99 per cent, included Trivandrum 99.85 per cent, Chennai 99.62 per cent, Allahabad 98.23 per cent. The pass percentage in the Delhi region has fallen to 78.09 per cent, a sharp dip of over 13 per cent since last year’s 91.06 per cent, the CBSE officials said.
The pass percentage has seen a dip, from a pass percentage of 98.40 in 2013, the number slumped to 91.76 per cent last year.
This has further plummeted to 78.09 this year.
The lowest pass percentage is 65.53 in Guwahati. The Board announced the results of Delhi, Chennai, Trivandrum and Allahabad in the afternoon while Ajmer, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Guwahati, Dehradun, Jammu and Kashmir and Patna were announced in the evening.
A lot of anxiety was expressed in other States due to the delay in results.
“We had been trying to check the result on all the websites given by CBSE since 10 am but it was only around 3 pm we could see the result of our child,” said a parent from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
At the national level, too, pass percentages for Class X exams have been going down since 2014. This year, overall, 90.95 per cent of students who appeared for the exams managed at least a passing grade. last year, the pass percentage was 96.21 per cent.
Boys have also scored more CGPA than the girls over all in the CBSE class X results with 1,05,188 boys scoring a CGPA of magic number10 to1,00,950 girls.
In Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, the pass percentage was 99.67 per cent while in Kendraya Vidyalaya the pass percentage was 99.66 per cent. In independent schools, the pass percentage was 97.43 per cent.
In Government aided schools, the 295 students had a CGPA of a perfect 10 while in government schools, 1574 students scored the perfect 10.