Around 6.6 per cent of students across the country scored above 90 per cent, Thiruvananthapuram stood first, the girls beat the boys again, Delhi was number one in the cheating department and Chennai emerged as the region having the highest number of students scoring above 95 per cent – these are some of the statistics that emerged after the Class XII Central Board of Secondary Examinations results were declared for all regions here on Thursday.
Around 0.93 per cent students across the country scored above 95 per cent, the overall pass per cent increased by five decimal percentage points with 82.66 per cent passing compared to last year’s 82.10 per cent.
The difference between the girls and boys remained at around 10 per cent like last year. The pass percentage of girls was 88.52 and the boys 78.27.
Thiruvanthapuram, which was leading with a pass percentage of 94.26, is a new centre and was earlier clubbed with Chennai which lost its number one position and came second this year with 91.63 per cent.
The National Capital was also toppled from its second position to stand third although its pass percentage remained exactly the same, at 86.78. Bhubaneswar stood fourth with 86.25, Ajmer at 86.22, Panchkula at 82.84, Guwahati at 75.80, Allahabad at 75.10, Patna at 73.53 per cent and Dehra Dun at the tenth position with 72.77 pass percentage.
Chennai emerged the leader in having the maximum high-scorers with 3.07 per cent of its students getting above 95 per cent followed by Thiruvanthapuram at 2.65 per cent.
Bhubaneswar stood third with 1.14 per cent followed by Panchkula with 1.03 per cent. The Capital had 0.83 per cent of its students scoring above 95 per cent placing it at number five followed by Ajmer with 0.81 per cent at number six. Dehradun was number seven with 0.59 per cent, followed by Allahabad with 0.44 per cent and Patna at 0.33 per cent. Guwahati pulled up last with 0.3 per cent.
Institution–wise, it was again the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV) which had the top pass percentage of 97.54 followed by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathans (KVS) at 97.37 and government-aided schools at 86.66. Government schools followed with 85.59 pass percentage. Independent schools had a pass score of 82.77 per cent followed by the Central School for Tibetans (similar to JNV’s and KVS’s and also affiliated to the CBSE) with 79.09. Private candidates performed poorly, with a pass percentage of 38.57, a significant climb-down from its last year’s 44.12.
Delhi earned the dubious distinction of scoring the highest in the “cheating department” with 13 cases, a huge drop though from its earlier score of 25. Patna followed with seven cases, Bhubaneshwar had six followed by Dehradun with five and Guwahati had three. Both Chennai and Allahabad had one case each whereas Thiruvanthapuram and Ajmer had no cheating cases at all.
As many as 10,28,928 students took the exam this year in 3,041 exam centres and from 8,602 schools across the country. More students were also registered this year, an 8.91 per cent increase to be exact.
Applications for verification of marks will begin from Friday and will have to be made online within seven days. The fee is Rs. 500 per subject. The past practice of verification of marks in schools and regional CBSE offices has been done away with and now it is received only online. More details are available on www.cbse.nic.in
