Girls outshine boys, Delhi girl first in CBSE class 12 exams

New Delhi/ Guwahati, May 21: Girls outclassed boys as Sukriti Gupta of Delhi and Palak Goyal of Harya bagged the first and second positions in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 results declared on Saturday.

With an overall pass percentage of 88.58, girls performed better compared to the boys' 78.85.

The pass percentage for boys in 2015 was 81.59 percent, while it was 90.87 percent for girls. The pass percentage in the Guwahati zone is 71.34. There were a total of 50,710 candidates from 446 schools in the zone. The pass percentage of boys is 68.28, while the girls fared better with a pass percentage of 74.55. According to a CBSE press release, 83.05 percent students cleared the examition this year against 82 percent last year. Thiruvanthapuram recorded the highest pass percentage of 97.61, followed by Cheni at 92.63 percent.

Over 10 lakh students had appeared in the examitions that began on March 1 and concluded on April 22.

Sukriti Gupta of Montfort School in west Delhi secured 99.4 percent marks to top the exams.

Gupta, a science stream student, scored full marks in Physics and Chemistry and got 99 out of 100 in English, Mathematics and Computer Science each. She aggregated 497 out of 500.

Palak Goyal of Tagore Public School, Kurukshetra, stood second in the all-India ranking, securing just one mark less than Gupta. She scored 99.2 percent.

The third place was secured by Somya Uppal of St. Theresa's Convent School, Karl, and Ajish Sekar of P.S.B.B Senior Secondary, Cheni - both scoring 99 percent marks.

In the differently-abled category, Mudita Jagota of DAV Public School, Faridabad, stood first with 97 percent marks, Siddhartha Biswas of Kendriya Vidyalaya School, R.K. Puram, Delhi, came second and Rakshit Malik of Amity Intertiol School, Noida, stood third.

About 2.38 percent more candidates had registered for the examitions this year compared with the last year.

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