New Delhi: Girls outshone boys in the CBSE Class 12 results announced on Saturday with Noida girl Meghna Srivastava, topping the examination this year.
The overall pass percentage was 83.01 per cent as against last year’s 82.02 per cent. Girls did better than boys with a pass percentage of 88.31 per cent against boys’ 78.99 per cent, officials at the CBSE headquarters said here.
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar congratulated those who passed the CBSE class 12 exam and also advised those who did not do well not to lose heart.
He also said the quality of government schools is improving and congratulated those for a good show.
Meghna Srivastava topped the CBSE Class 12 examination getting 99.8%. She secured 499 marks out of 500. She is a student of Step By Step School, Noida, and is from the Humanities stream.
She scored 99 in English (Core), while in other subjects – Psychology, History, Geography and Economics – she scored 100.
The second position was bagged by another girl, Anoushka Chandra, also a humanities stream student from a school in Ghaziabad. She got 498 marks out of 500.
She scored 98 in English (Core) and 100 in History, Economics, Political science and Psychology.
The third position was held by seven students, including five girls, who got 497 marks out of 500, the officials said.
The best performing region was Trivandrum in Kerala with a pass percentage of 97.32 per cent. Chennai region’s pass percentage was second best at 93.87 per cent. Delhi was at the third spot with 89 per cent pass percentage, the officials said.
Among different categories of schools affiliated to the CBSE, Kendriya Vidyalayas gave the best results with a pass percentage of 97.78, as opposed to 95.86 last year while private schools had the lowest pass percentage with 82.50.
A total of 12,737 candidates scored 95 per cent or above, whereas 72,599 candidates scored 90 per cent and above in the exam, the officials said.
The overall pass percentage of differently abled candidates was 87.52 per cent.
