A Delhi girl topped the Class XII examination results of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) that were declared on Monday. M Gayatri of New Green Field School in South Delhi’s Saket secured 99.2 per cent. A student of commerce stream, Gayatri scored 496 marks out of 500. As usual, girls outscored boys with overall pass percentage of 87.56 to 77.77 per cent. In all 82 per cent students passed the examination, however, the overall pass percentage was marginally lower than last year where 82.70 per cent students had passed the exam as against 82 per cent this year. Thiruvananthapuram registered the highest pass percentage at 95.41.
According to a CBSE release, in all, 10,40,368 candidates had registered for Class XII examination this year, an increase of about 1.2 per cent candidates over that of last year. Photocopies of the evaluated answer sheets will be provided to the candidate(s) requesting for it and only to those candidates who have applied for verification of marks. Applications will be accepted by the Board from June 13 to June 17, CBSE said in a statement.