CBSE XII results: It’s the girls, yet again!

Girls outperformed boys yet again in CBSE class XII examination results by a margin of over 9 per cent, even while the overall pass percentage dropped by over one per cent.
The pass percentage for girls in the results which were announced on Sunday was 87.50, while for boys it was 78 per cent.

However, the overall pass percentage dropped to 82 per cent from 83.05 per cent last year.

Noida Girl Raksha Gopal emerged nation-wide topper in the exams with a whopping 99.6 per cent, while the second position was bagged by Chandigarh’s Bhumi Sawant who scored 99.4 per cent mark.

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar spoke to the toppers and congratulated them on their performance.

Trivandrum region recorded the highest pass percentage at 95.62 per cent followed by Chennai and Delhi.