CBSE Class XII results out, Sukriti Gupta of Delhi comes first

With a pass percentage of 88.58%, girls once again outperformed boys in the CBSE Class XII Board examination, the results of which were declared on Saturday. Boys recorded a pass percentage of 78.85%.

Sukriti Gupta of Montfort School in Delhi tops nationally with 497 of 500 in CBSE class 12th exams.

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Region-wise, South India has done better than others with the over all pass percentage of Thiruvanathapuram Region at 97.61% being the highest followed by Chennai which has a pass percentage of 92.63.

The overall pass percentage this year is 83.05 which is an improvement over last year's 82%.

In all a total of 10,65,179 candidates had registered for the exam this year, a 2.38% increase over the number of candidates that appeared last year.

In a statement released, the CBSE said that for the second consecutive year, CBSE has declared results of all ten regions on the same day. The duration of examination was from March 1 to April 26 2016.

The Board results for all its regions can be accessed at on three websites-www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in.

The schools will automatically get their results on the email ids already registered with the Board.

Starting this year, CBSE will also provide Class XII digital mark sheets in DigiLocker at www.digilocker.gov.in.

The DigiLocker account credentials will be sent to students via SMS on their mobile number registered with CBSE.

(With Agency Inputs)