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CBSE X results: Chennai on top

Lakshmi B. Ghosh

NEW DELHI: It may have been a tense daylong wait for most, but with the Central Board of Secondary Education on Thursday evening announcing the Class X results for the Delhi, Allahabad and Guwahati regions the curtains are drawn finally and largely happily on yet another score-filled Board season with the overall pass percentage going up by 2.38 per cent.

With well over 6 lakh students appearing for the examinations this year -- an increase of 6.5 per cent from last year -- the overall pass percentage stood at 74.60 per cent. While Delhi once again ended up in the fifth spot with a pass percentage of 60.84, the Chennai region was way ahead in the race to emerge at the top with 90.74 per cent of its students clearing the test. Ajmer finished second with 87.70 per cent and Chandigarh third with a pass percentage of 82.21. The Allahabad region took the fourth spot with a pass percentage of 80.60 while the Guwahati region in the North-East ended up last with a pass percentage of 45.90.

A 90 per cent aggregate no longer seems the privilege of a hardworking few. The CBSE Chairman, Ashok Ganguly, announced that as many as 13,853 students had scored 90 per cent marks or above across the country this year.

Although it is less than last year's figure of 14,399, the Board said there was an increasing trend of more students breaking the 90-mark barrier as seen also in the Class XII scores this year.

While Chennai leads even this list with 4,765 students scoring 90 marks or above, in the Delhi region there are 3,010 such students this time compared to 2,725 the last time round.

Mathematics continues to be the most scoring subject with as many as 903 students managing a cent per cent in the subject. Of them, 206 are from Chandigarh, 203 from Chennai and 163 from Delhi apart from other regions.

Science too has emerged as one of the high-scoring subjects with 1,040 students scoring 99-100 per cent and 154 students, including 54 from Delhi, managing a 100 per cent in the subject.

Maintaining their lead over the years, girls are yet again ahead of the boys with a pass percentage of 75.26 as against 74.13 for the latter.

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