The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday declared the results of Class XII board examination with Trivandrum region topping the chart having the highest pass percentage at 97.32 per cent followed by Chennai and Delhi at 93.87 and 89 per cent respectively. The CBSE exam this year was marred by the controversy over Economics exam paper leak which was re-conducted on April 25 nearly a month after it was leaked triggering widespread outrage and confusion among students across the country.
Maintaining the last year’s precedent girls again outperformed boys surpassing their male counterparts by 9.32 percent in the overall pass percentage. Girls overall pass percentage is 88.31 percent as compared to boys 78.99
However, CBSE class XII overall pass percentage has increased by 1 per cent to that of last year. The overall pass percentage is 83.01 per cent as compared to last year figure at 82.02 per cent.
CBSE exam was held between 5 March and 27 April at about 4145 centres in India and abroad. With more than 11 lakh students from 11510 schools appearing in the exam, the Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) has excelled over others with 97.78 as pass percentage. The KV is followed by Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) at 97.07 as pass percentage. Also, government and government aided schools have performed better than private ones. While the private schools witnessed pass percentage of 82.50
per cent, the Government and government aided schools have 84.39 and 84.48 per cent respectively.
Meghna Srivastava of Step By Step school, Noida is all India topper securing 1 mark short of total, securing 499 out of 500. An student from the humanities stream she secured 99 marks in English (Core), while in the other subjects Psychology, History, Geography and Economics, she scored a perfect 100.
While Anoushka Chandra of SAJ School, Ghaziabad is next in fray bagging 498. She scored 98 in English (Core) and 100 in History, Economics, Political science and Psychology.While, the third rank is shared among 7 students who secured 497 each.
Further in the differently able category A Vijay Ganesh of Palghat lions School , Palakkad , Kerala bagged the top rank with 492 marks . Second rank in the differently able category went to Pooja Kumari of Dehradun with 489 marks while third rank is secured by lavanya Jha of Delhi Public School (DPS) RK Puram Delhi with 487 out of 500.
Out of more than 11 lakh candidates 91,818 are placed in compartments while 12737 have secured more than 95 percent and 72599 more than 90 percent of marks.
On the other hand as the CBSE results brought cheers and laurels to many students and their parents, Union Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) Prakash Javadekar congratulated students who passed the CBSE class XII exams.
The Minister also advised those students who did not do well to not lose heart and work hard to succeed.
“I congratulate all those who succeeded. Those who did not succeed, I give them my best wishes because they should not lose heart. This is a temporary setback and they will put in more effort and succeed,” said Javadekar .
Javadekar said that even the government and government-aided schools have scored more than the average result which shows that the such schools are improving.
“I am very happy for Kendriya Vidyalaya and Navodaya Vidyalaya. Even Government and Government-aided schools have scored more than the average result. It is really a landmark moment. The quality of government schools is improving and it’s a good news for everyone,” he added.