Smriti Irani was one proud mom on Thursday as her son Zohr cleared the CBSE Class 12 board exam scoring above 90%.

“Ok saying it out loud— proud of my son Zohr..not only did he come back with a bronze medal from the World Kempo Championship also scored well in 12 th boards. Best of 4– 91% .. special yahoo for 94% in economics.. Maaf karna ,today I’m just a gloating Mom🙏 (sic),” the Union minister tweeted.

Zohr was among the 13 lakh students, who appeared for the  CBSE Class 12 board exams from February 16, as 84.3% of them cleared it across the country.

Two girls from schools in Uttar Pradesh have aced the CBSE Class 12 board exams.

Hansika Shukla of DPS Meerut Road in Ghaziabad and Karishma Arora of Muzaffarnagar’s SD Public School topped with 499 out of 500 marks.

Three girls with 498 marks each were on the second spot. Gaurangi Chawla of Nirmal Ashram School in Rishikesh of Uttarakhand, Aishwarya of KV Rai in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly and Bhavya BR of the SK International Public School in Jind of Haryana got the merit.

Girls did better this year too with a pass percentage of 88.70 as compared to 79.4% of boys, who were declared successful.

The results have been announced within 28 days of the last date of the exams

First Published: May 02, 2019 14:33 IST