LEAP TO GLORY: Class XII students celebrate after knowing their results in New Delhi on Friday. Tribune Photo: Manas Ranjan Bhui

New Delhi, May 22
Eleven disabled students, including one from Panchkula, were among 15,839 children who secured above 90 per cent in Class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams.

According to CBSE spokesperson Rama Sharma, a total of 1,034 students with disability -- 225 blind, 35 deaf, 564 physically handicapped, 12 spastic children and 225 students with dyslexia -- appeared for the Class XII exams this year.

“Of these, 916 children passed and 11, including three girls, scored above 90 per cent,” Sharma said.

Of the eleven special children who scored over 90 per cent, seven were from Chennai where 185 students with disability had taken the exams. Two children were from the national capital where the highest number - 485 disabled kids - had appeared for the exams. The remaining two are from Allahabad and Panchkula, respectively.

The CBSE Class XII board exam results were declared for the Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad zones at 10 a.m. on Friday. For the Ajmer, Chennai and Panchkula regions, the results were declared on Wednesday.

For the first time this year, the CBSE had designated educators to answer the queries of disabled students who were taking the Class X and XII board exams.

In all, 81 per cent of the total of 6,37,976 students registered for this year's exam cleared the test. This year's pass percentage marked an increase of 0.09 per cent over that of last year. Girls registered a pass percentage of 85.94 against 77.40 of boys.

A total of 3,40,876 students, including 1,61,139 girls, secured over 60 per cent marks. In Delhi, 71,130 students, including 38,622 girls, got more than 60 per cent marks.

Tannvi Aggrawal from Apeejay School, Faridabad, and Mritika Sen, student of Rajhans Vidyalaya Andheri West, Mumbai, topped the exam by securing 98.4 per cent marks (492 out of 500). Aggrawal is from commerce stream while Sen was from the science.

In Delhi region, Subhasis Vadra of DPS (RK Puram) secured the first position with 490 marks in science stream while Priyanka Bagai of Convent of Jesus and Mary, Central Delhi, topped in the commerce stream with 488 marks. — IANS/PTI