Chandigarh: Girls maintained their dominance over boys leaving them behind in the CBSE Class X examination held in the month of March covering states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory Chandigarh, the results of which were declared on Tuesday.
While the overall pass percentage for the boys is 88.22 per cent, girls are ahead at 92.25 per cent.
"The overall pass percentage for Class X for the region is 90.18 per cent. A total of 1,19,014 had appeared in the Class X examination," CBSE Panchkula-based centre's Joint Secretary D R Yadava said.
The overall pass percentage for Class X has shown improvement this year in comparison with 89.07 per cent last year and 89.09 per cent in 2007.
While the Kendriya Vidyalaya had fared very well getting a pass percentage of 96.01 per cent, Government schools were lagging much behind at 65.30 per cent. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and Independent Schools had got a pass percentage of 96.92 per cent and 91.47 per cent, respectively.
In the Class XII examination for the region declared by the CBSE a week back, boys had got an overall pass percentage of 77.56 per cent while the girls had got 86.24 per cent.
Yadava said the result sheets are being despatched to the outstation schools while the schools of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula can collect them from the CBSE office.
Chennai girl Akshaya Rangarajan from SBOA school has topped the list of successful candidate scoring 98.2 per cent.
"I have been studying in this school since LKG and whatever I have achieved today is because of my teachers and paernts. I wouldn't have been able to do anything without the teachers' help. I am very very happy. I thank my parents for everything," a jubilant Akshaya told CNN-IBN.
Students can get their results on the websites cbse.nic.in, results.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in. They can also call on 011 - 28127030 to find out the results.
Comments
0 comment