CBSE class 10 results out... four share top position with 499/ 500

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday declared the results of the class 10 examinations, with four students sharing the top position. Anil Swarup, Secretary of School Education and Literacy with the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, had on Monday announced that the results would be out by 4 pm on Tuesday. However, the results were announced a little after 1 pm on the official website cbseresults.nic.in.

Prakhar Mittal from DPS Gurgaon, Rimzhim Agarwal from R P Public School, Bijnor, Nandini Garg from Scottish International School, Shamli, and Sreelakshmi G from Bhavan's Vidyalaya, Cochin, topped the exam with 499 marks. The overall pass percentage was 86.70, with girls outshining boys by 3.35 percentage points. Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai and Ajmer emerged as top three regions pass percentage-wise, scoring 99.60, 97.37 and 91.86, respectively. The pass percentage for Delhi region was lower than national at 78.62.

A total of 131,493 students crossed the 90 per cent mark, while 27,476 scored more than 95 per cent out of more than 16 lakh who appeared for the exam. Students from 17,567 schools from across the country and abroad had taken exams at 4,460 centres.

The pass percentage for differently-abled students was 92.55.

The board exams this year were marred by controversy with question paper leaks being reported from Delhi-NCR and Jharkhand. The HRD Ministry had decided against conducting a re-examination of the Class 10 mathematics paper 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.