CBSE declares results, Pass percentage down

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released the Class 12 results 2017 on May 28, 2017. A total of 19,85,397 students from Classes 10 and 12 have registered for the exam out of which 10,98,891 are from Class 12.

“As per previous years, this year also the CBSE is hosting its results on net with the technical support of National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India,” the CBSE said in an official notice, adding that there will be no official press conference for result declaration.

 About 4,60,026 girls and 6,38,865 boys took part in the exams. Among the cities, Chennai has the highest number of students participation for the Class 10 board exams (1,54,401) while Delhi has taken the top position for the number of students registered for the class 12 boards (2,58,321). Panchkula has the largest number of exam centres for both class 10 and 12 exams.

 More students score above 95%

Students scoring in the 95-100% range has increased to 10,091 from last year’s 9,351, say board officials.

Pass percentage down

Nearly 82% students, lower than last year’s 83%, cleared the Class 12 board examination 2017 conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), results of which declared on Sunday.

The pass percentage for the Delhi region at 86.45 was higher than the national pass percentage, board officials said. Last year, 87.01% student cleared the exam in the region.

Nearly 11 lakh candidates registered for the Class 12 exams, which were held between March 9 and April 29, this year against 10,67,900 students last year.

Board officials said students scoring in the 95-100% range increased to 10,091 from last year’s 9351.

Girls performed better than boys by 9.5% as out of 4,60,026 girls 87.50% passed and 78% of 6,38,865 boys cleared the exam. The pass percentage of disabled students was 86.69 with 2123 out of 2449 passed.