New Delhi: Girls outshone boys in the CBSE Class 12 results announced on Saturday with Meghna Srivastava, from a Noida school, topping the examination this year.
The overall pass percentage was 83.01 percent as against last year's 82.02 percent.
Girls did better than boys with a pass percentage of 88.31 percent against boys' 78.99 percent, officials at the CBSE headquarters said here.
Meghna Srivastava topped the CBSE Class 12 examination getting 99.8%. She secured 499 marks out of 500. She is a student of Step By Step School, Noida, and is from the Humanities stream.
She scored 99 in English (Core), while in other subjects — Psychology, History, Geography and Economics — she scored 100.
The second position was bagged by another girl, Anoushka Chand, also a humanities stream student from a school in Ghaziabad. She got 498 marks out of 500.
She scored 98 in English (Core) and 100 in History, Economics, Political science and Psychology.
The best performing region was Trivandrum in Kerala with a pass percentage of 97.32 percent. Chennai region's pass percentage was second best at 93.87 percent.
Delhi was at the third spot with 89 percent pass percentage, the officials said.
The overall pass percentage of the Delhi region saw an increase from 88.37 percent in 2017 to 89 percent this year.