CBSE declares Class 10 result, over 1.68 lakh students score 10 CGPA

New Delhi, May 28

A whopping 1,68,541 students across the country — 85,316 boys and 83,225 girls scored a perfect 10 Cumulative Grade Point Average or CGPA score in the CBSE Class 10 exams, results of which were announced on Saturday.

A total of 94,474 students scored a perfect 10 CGPA —49,392 were boys and 45,082 girls — last year.

Although the number of boys who have scored 10 CGPA is more, girls have done better in terms of pass percentage: a 96.36 per cent of the girls who took the exams passed against 96.11 per cent boys.

Pass percentage this year is 96.21 per cent, down from last year’s 97.32.

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Thiruvanathpuram was ahead of other regions with a pass percentage of 99.87 followed by Chennai at 99.69 percent.

Differently-abled candidates recorded pass percentage of 95.18.

A total of 14,91,293 candidates were registered for Class 10 examinations: an increase of about 8.5 per cent candidates over last year.

Category wise, the Central Government’s Jawahar Navodyaya Vidyalayas has a pass percentage of 98.87 followed by Kendriya Vidyalayas at 98.85 per cent.

Independent schools had 1,51,061 students scoring a perfect 10 CGPA, while KVs and JNVs had 12,719 and 3,209, respectively.

Government schools however only had 1,242 students with the perfect 10, while government-aided schools only had 307.  

Students can access their results on the board's website cbseresults.nic.in.—  PTI