It’s a perfect 10 for 1,68,541 students

New Delhi, May 28

A whopping 1,68,541 students across the country — 85,316 boys and 83,225 girls — have scored a perfect 10 CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average)  score in the CBSE Class X exam results announced today.

Last year, 94,474 students had scored a perfect 10 of whom 49,392 were boys.

This year, while the number of boys who have scored 10 CGPA is more, girls have fared better in terms of pass percentage.

Girls have a pass percentage of 96.36 per cent, which is better than that of boys  (96.11 per cent). 

Overall, the pass percentage this year is 96.21, which has come down from 97.32 per cent in the previous year. Thiruvananthapuram topped the results with a pass percentage of 99.87 followed by Chennai region with a pass percentage of 99.69 per cent.

A total 14,91,293 candidates were registered for the Class X examination, 8.5 per cent more than those registered the previous year.

Differently-abled candidates did well too, with 95.18 per cent of them clearing the exam. Category-wise, the Central Government-run Jawahar Navodyaya Vidyalayas (JNV) have scored a pass percentage of 98.87 per cent, followed by Kendriya Vidyalayas with a pass percentage of 98.85 per cent. Government schools have registered a pass percentage of 86.61 per cent. As per the CBSE  data, 85.62 per cent students in government-aided schools have cleared the examination.

In terms of scoring the perfect 10 CGPA score, independent schools take the lion’s share with 1,51,061 of their students finding a place in this category.

The figures of government schools are not as impressive with only 1,242 students from government schools and 307 from aided schools scoring a perfect 10 CGPA.  As many as 12,719 KV and 3,209 JNV students also scored a CGPA score of 10 — PTI