New Delhi: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday declared class 10 Board result with four students emerging as toppers with 499 marks out of 500.
The toppers included Rimzhim Agarwal from RP Public School, Bijnor, Nandini Garg from Scottish International School, Shamli, Prakhar Mittal from Delhi Public School (DPS), Gurgaon, and Sreelakshmi G from Bhavan's Vidyalaya, Cochin.
The top three regions are Thiruvananthapuram with 99.60 pass percentage, Chennai with 97.37 pass percentage, and Ajmer with 91.86 pass percentage.
While the overall pass percentage is 86.7 per cent, the pass percentage for girls is 88.67 per cent and for boys 85.32 per cent.
As many as 27476 students scored equal to or more than 95 per cent marks while 131,493 students scored equal to or more than 90 per cent marks.
A total of 16.38 lakh students had appeared for the class 10 Board examination conducted by CBSE across 4453 centres.
As many as 967,325 male candidates and 671,103 female candidates appeared for the class 10 exams that were conducted in the month of February-March last year.
In Delhi, 286,660 students appeared for the exam out of which 225361 passed. The pass percentage of Delhi region stood at 78.62 per cent.
CONTROVERSY
The board exams were marred by controversy this year with question paper leaks reported from Delhi-NCR, Haryana and Jharkhand of Class 10 mathematics paper, but the HRD ministry had decided against conducting a re-examination in the "interest of students".
This was the first batch to appear for the Class 10 board examinations after the CBSE decided to junk the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) and reintroduce the board exams.
Over 1.6 million students appeared for Class 10 exams this year.
