PTI
NEW DELHI
The pass percentage for girls in the results which were announced today 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, according to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) officials.
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.
Mannat Luthra and Aditya Jain, also from Chandigarh, jointly bagged the third rank with 99.2 per cent in commerce section.
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 (92.60 per cent) and Delhi (88.37 per cent).
This year Delhi’s performance improved by nearly one per cent as the national capital recorded a pass percentage of 87.01 per cent.
Government-run Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas performed the best with a pass percentage of 95.73 per cent, while the Kendriya Vidyalayas recorded 94.60 per cent
success.
Noida student tops, SCORES 99.6%
NOIDA: Talented keyboard player Raksha Gopal struck all the right chords -- and ended up with the highest score of 99.6 per cent marks in examinations conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education. Raksha, a humanities student at Amity International School, Noida, said she was expecting a “good” result but was surprised to find that she was just two marks short of a perfect 100. Raksha, who stood first among almost 11 lakh students across India, scored cent per cent marks in three subjects -- English core, political science and economics -- and 99 per cent in two subjects -- psychology and history.
