Girls outshine boys in CBSE class 12th exams

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : May 29 2014 | 8:09 PM IST
Girls outshined boys by almost 10 per cent in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12th examination results for the Delhi region this year which were declared today.
Unconfirmed reports suggested that Delhi boy, Sarthak Aggarwal emerged as the overall topper in the country. CBSE, as per policy, does not reveal the names of the toppers.
Aggarwal a science student from DPS Vasant Kunj scored a remarkable 99.6 per cent.
Talking about his spectacular success, Aggarwal said that he had not taken any tuition. He emphasized on the quality of hours he had spent for studies before the examination.
The pass per cent among girls was 91.72 per cent while that among boys was 82.09 per cent. The overall pass per cent was 86.78 per cent in the Delhi region, data released by CBSE revealed today.
Incidentally, last year also the overall pass per cent was 86.78 per cent when 82.44 per cent boys while 91.42 per cent girls had passed the exam.
Reports also said that G Harikrishna of Air Force Bal Bharti school, central Delhi topped in the commerce stream with 99.2 percent while in Humanities stream, Mugdh Sethia, a student of DPS Indrapuram and Vasudha Dikshit of Vasant Valley school emerged topper with 98.8 per cent.
This year, 302549 students had appeared for the CBSE class 12the exam in Delhi out of which 297466 have passed the exam.
Students from 1618 schools had appeared for the exams at 663 exam centres in the national capital.
The number of case in which students used unfair means have actually come down this year. In 2013, 25 such cases were reported while this year only 13 such cases were reported.
However, the maximum number of case of cheating was registered in Delhi. At the second spot is Patna with seven cases, followed by Bhubaneshwar (six), Dehradun (five), Panchkula (five), Guwahati (three) and Chennai and Allahabad with one case each.
The total number of cases of cheating reported in all regions this year was 41.
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First Published: May 29 2014 | 8:09 PM IST

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