After a long wait, CBSE finally declared the results of class 12 board exams on May 28, 10:25 am. All the students who appeared for the exam can check their results online by visiting official sites, namely, cbse.nic.in, cbseresults.nic.in or results.nic.in. The class 12 board exams were conducted by the CBSE from March 9 to April 29.
Decline in the pass percentage
With this year's result out the pass percentage of the students has been dipped by 1/05 percent, reports from the HT. This year total pass percentage of the students is 82% as opposed to the last years, which was 83.05 percent.
The Topper
This year's topper is Raksha Gopal from the Amity International School, Noida and she passed the class 12 exams with 99.6 percent.
This year a total number of 10,98,429 candidate appeared for the class 12 exams at 3,503 centers across the nation. CBSE board class 10 results are expected to be out on June 2. For this year's class 10 exams a total number of 2,497 candidates also registered under the disability category.
Passing marks
In order for a student to pass, he/she must obtain a minimum number of marks in each subject, which in the case of CBSE is 33 percent. In order to pass a candidate must score 33 percent marks which in both practical/internal and main exam.