Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared results of Class 12 on Saturday with an overall pass percentage of 83.01 percent.
Trivandrum has topped the list with a pass percentage of 97.32 %, Chennai placed second with 93.87 % and Delhi in the third with 89 %. Students can access their results on www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in.
Public Relations Officer (PRO) CBSE Rama Sharma congratulated the students saying, "The board congratulates all the students. The girls have taken a lead of 9.32 percent ahead of boys. The pass percentage has also increased by 1 percent. There are nine toppers this year with the first topper at 499 marks, the second topper 498, and seven toppers at 497 marks".
"The CBSE has also set up special counseling facility for dealing with post-result anxiety. The toll-free number 1800-11-8004 can be accessed from any part of the country," she added.
Meghna Srivastava, from Ghaziabad, with 499 marks out of 500 secured the All India 1st rank and Anoushka Chandra from Ghaziabad secured the second rank with 498.
In the differently abled category, A Vijay Ganesh from Kerala secured the 1st rank in all of India with a score of 492. With 489, Pooja Kumari of Dehradun secured the second rank and Lavanya Jha of Delhi secured third rank with 487.
Altogether 11,84,386 students had registered for the exams out of which 11,06,772 appeared across 4145 centers in India.
(With inputs from ANI)
