Kerala tops in CBSE Class 12 exams

The Thiruvananthapuram region of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) continues its excellent run in the class 12 examinations recording the highest pass percentage of 97.32 in the country.

The CBSE declared the class 12 results on Saturday afternoon.

The pass percentage for the region this year is an increase from last year's 95.64%.

Significantly, the toppers in all three streams in the region this year are girls, with all securing 496 out of 500 marks.

Winners

Kasturi Sha of Saraswati Vidyalaya, Vattiyurkavu, topped the humanities stream.

Nanda Vinod of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kannur, was the science stream topper.

Maehal Barthwal of Navy Children School, Naval Base, Kochi, topped in commerce.

A. Vijay Ganesh of Palakkad Lion’s School was the national topper in the differently abled category, securing 492 marks.

CBSE Regional Officer Tarun Kumar said girls outdid boys securing a pass percentage of 98.05.

The boys managed a pass percentage of 95.61.

Nine of the top 10 ranks in the region were bagged by girls, he said.

As many as 38,934 students appeared for the class 12 examinations in the region, of whom 37,706 passed.

General category

In the general category, of the 37,624 students who appeared for the examination, 36,449 passed.

Of these 18,648 were girls and 17,801 were boys. In the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe category, of the 1,310 students who sat for the examination, 1,257 — 643 girls and 614 boys — passed.

Chennai region

The Chennai region was second with 93.87%, followed by Delhi at 89%.

The Class 12 examination scheduled from March 5 to April 12 courted controversy after the Economics question paper was leaked.

A retest was later held on April 25.