The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday, 2 May declared the Class 12 results for all the regions. Two girls, Hansika Shukla and Karishma Arora, scored 499 out of 500 marks.
According to CBSE, the top performing region was Trivandrum with a pass percentage of 98.2 percent. The results are available on the board’s website cbse.nic.in.
Girls have a pass percentage of 88.70 which is 9 percentage points more than that of boys' 79.40 per cent. Transgenders have a pass percentage of 83.3 per cent.
In a first, the CBSE announced the class 12 results way ahead of schedule following a Delhi High Court order to complete the process before the undergraduate admissions begin.
- Around 13 lakh students appeared for the examination
- There has been an overall increase of 0.39 percent in the pass percentage in 2019
- HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar took to Twitter to congratulate the students
(At The Quint, we question everything. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member today.)
'Results Declared Early to Facilitate UG Admissions': CBSE
In a first, the CBSE announced the class 12 results way ahead of schedule following a Delhi High Court order to complete the process before the undergraduate admissions begin.
The Central Board of Secondary Education announced the results within 28 days, around three weeks before the usual schedule, as the exams had begun on 15 February had concluded on 3 April.
Speaking on the CBSE move, a board official told PTI: "The Delhi High court had asked all boards to finish the result process before the undergraduate admissions begin so there is no hassle about pending results and students being stuck."
The CBSE was also ahead of the ICSE board which announces the results before it every year.
The board had advanced the commencement of the examination by a fortnight this year.
Delhi Pass Percentage up by 2.87%
Delhi recorded a pass percentage of 91.87 percent in the Class 12 CBSE examinations, an increase of 2.87 percent compared to last year.
According to CBSE statistics, Delhi recorded a pass percentage of 91.87 percent. It was 89 percent last year.
Hearing-Impaired Gurgaon Girl Is Cbse Class 12 Topper in Special Category
Hearing-impaired student Lavanya Balakrishnan is the CBSE Class 12 topper in the persons with disabilities category.
With 97.3 per cent marks, the Gurgaon girl wants to pursue a career in designing.
A student of the Heritage School in Gurgaon, Balakrishnan has scored a perfect 100 in political science.
"I love the subject but I want to pursue a career in designing. I always made it a point to not study beyond six hours a day but I adopted the policy throughout the year rather than just struggling before the exams," she told PTI.
Balakrishnan, who is hearing-impaired since birth, credited her mother motivating her to work hard.
Regret Scoring 99 in English: CBSE Class 12 Topper
Ghaziabad's Hansika Shukla, who has topped the CBSE class 12 examination with 499 marks has only one regret – scoring 99 in English.
Shukla who has scored 100 each in history, political science, psychology and Hindustani vocals, says she followed a no social media policy ahead of examinations.
"I am on cloud nine as I had not expected this kind of result but now I feel it would have been perfect to get one more mark and have 100 in English. I regret that now," Shukla told PTI.
While her mother is an associate professor at a college in Ghaziabad, her father works as a secretary in the Rajya Sabha.