Lakhs of students appear for CBSE class X, XII exams

Lakhs of students today appeared for the CBSE class X and XII examinations at over 5,300 centres across the country.

Around 6.99 lakh candidates took their class XII examination for physics while a number of students out of a total of 9.02 lakh candidates in class X took their exam in music.

According to CBSE, the number of students appearing for the class X examination is 8.65% more than last year. Among the candidates, 5,33,715 are boys and 3,68,802 are girls.

For the class XII examination, the increase in the number of candidates is 8.80%.

In Delhi, 2.47 lakh students will sit for the class X examination while 1.99 lakh will appear for class XII test. The figures this year account for an increase of 6.32% and 9.28% respectively compared to that of last year.

There will be 13,311 students appearing for the class X and 8,596 candidates appearing for the class XII examinations in 56 and 45 centres abroad respectively.

The number of centres for class X and class XII in Gulf countries were 37 and 33 respectively.