New Delhi: Girls once again have outperformed boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 examinations, the results of which were declared yesterday.
“Girls have done better this year as well. The girls have a pass percentage of 99.06 percent, compared to the boys, which is 98.74 percent,” CBSE public relations officer Rama Sharma said.
The overall pass percentage was 98.87 percent — a marginal increase from last year’s 98.76 percent. A total of 1.32 million students appeared in the examination this year, which is an increase by 5.51 percent over 2013.
In the national capital, boys recorded a pass percentage of 97.88 percent, while girls recorded a pass percentage of 98.81 percent. Delhi’s total pass percentage was 98.31 percent. Of the 317,534 registered candidates in the national capital, 3,17,163 appeared for the examination and 311,818 passed.
The highest pass percentage, 99.96 percent, was from Thiruvananthapuram where girls recorded a 100 percent pass percentage while the boys’ pass percentage was 99.94.
Guwahati at 92.63 percent had the lowest pass percentage of students. A total of 93.1 percent of girls passed their examinations while the figure for boys was 92.19 percent. Of the 4,348 candidates who appeared in the examinations in Guwahati, 7.37 percent appeared for re-examination, which was the highest in the country.
Delhi was second as 1.63 percent of the 5,160 candidates who appeared for the examinations, gave a re-test. The lowest percentage was recorded in Thiruvananthapuram at
0.03 percent. IANS
