Kerala tops in CBSE results

The all-India overall pass percentage is 83.01 which is up by one per cent from last year.

Update: 2018-05-26 21:28 GMT
Kasturi Sha.

Thiruvananthapuram: Thiruvananthapuram region topped  in the CBSE standard XII results with an overall  97. 32 pass percentage. The all-India overall pass percentage is  83.01  which is up by one per cent from last year. The results were announced in Delhi on Saturday. The Chennai region came second  with 93.87 per cent followed by Delhi with 89 percent. While all-India topper, Meghana Srivastava from Noida, Uttar Pradesh, got 499 out of 500 marks, three  Kerala toppers, all girls, in the three streams  scored  496. This is  the fourth  rank in the all-India list.

Nanda Vinod

The second topper, Anoushka Chandra, also from Uttar Pradesh, is just one mark behind the national topper with 498.  The third is Chahat Bodhraj from Rajasthan with 497 marks. The toppers from Kerala in the three streams are the following: Arts stream: Kasturi Sha,  496, Saraswati Vidyalaya, Vattiyoorkavu, Thiruvananthapuram.  Science Stream:  Nanda Vinod,  496 , Kendriya Vidyala, Kannur. Commerce stream:  Maehal Barthwal,  496, Navy Children School,  Naval Base, Kochi.

Maehal Barthwal

A student with disabilities from the state got all-India first in that category. He is A. Vijay Ganesh of Lions School, Palakkad,  who got 492  marks. Of the total  38,934 students who appeared for the examinations from the state, 37,706 passed.   Of them,  19,291  are girls  (19,674 appeared) and 18,415  boys (19,260 appeared). Girls have outshone boys at the all-India level with an overall pass  percentage of 88.31 compared to 78.09 of boys. The date for releasing Class 10 results is yet to be announced. 

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