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Girls outclassed boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 results declared yesterday.
With an overall pass percentage of 88.58, girls performed better compared to the boys’ 78.85.
The pass percentage for boys in 2015 was 81.59%, while it was 90.87% for girls.
Sukriti Gupta of Delhi and Palak Goyal of Haryana bagged the first and second positions.
According to a CBSE press release, 83.05% students cleared the examination this year against 82% last year.
Thiruvananthapuram recorded the highest pass percentage of 97.61, followed by Chennai at 92.63%.
Over 1mn students had appeared in the examinations that began on March 1 and concluded on April 22.
Gupta of Montfort School in west Delhi secured 99.4% marks to top the exams.
The science stream studentscored full marks in Physics and Chemistry and got 99 out of 100 in English, Mathematics and Computer Science. She aggregated 497 out of 500.
Goyal of Tagore Public School in Kurukshetra, Haryana stood second in the all-India ranking, securing just one mark less than Gupta. She scored 99.2%.
The third place was secured by Somya Uppal of St Theresa’s Convent School, Karnal, and Ajish Sekar of PSBB Senior Secondary, Chennai - both scoring 99% marks.
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