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Girls
outshine boys in CBSE class XII results
by Chandrika Jain
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Delhi: The fate of over four and a half lakh students
across the country has been decided with the declaration of
the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class XII
results today. The total pass percentage is 79.55 per cent.
Even this time, girls outshine the boys. The girls make for
84.4 per cent and boys 79.93 per cent. At Delhi Public School,
R.K.Puram, Anshu Mittal from Science stream and Anuradha Kumar
from Commerce stream topped both with 96.8 per cent. Elated
Anuradha said that she would be taking up Economics for further
studies. Talking to the media, CBSE Chairman Ashok Ganguly
applauded the newly implemented provision of extra fifteen
minutes, about which he said has shown positive impact on
both the performances of candidates as well as the result.
According to Ganguly, girls collectively secured a pass percentage
of 84.41 percent while the boys had a pass percentage of 75.93
percent, a gap of 8.5 percent in favour of the girls. The
gap had increased from last year which was six percent.
Among the regions, Chennai earned the first position with
a pass percentage of 91.46 percent; Ajmer came next followed
by Chandigarh, Delhi, Allahabad and Guwahati. Government-run
Central Schools or Kendriya Vidyalayas had the best results
among the schools with a pass percentage of 92.89 percent
follwed by the Jawahar Narvodaya Vidyalayas, private public
schools came third. Sixty-one foreign schools whose results
were declared along with the Delhi region had a pass percentage
of 93.45 percent. The national capital students had a pass
percentage of 79.16 percent that was up by 1.55 percent from
last year and girls fared better with a pass percentage of
83.51 percent compared to 75.12 percent of the boys again
a gap of eight percent. Government schools had something to
cheer about with their pass percentage increasing to 78.05
percent from 76.44 percent last year up by 1.61 percent. More
than 4.5 lakh students, including over 1.9 lakh girls, had
appeared for the Class XII exams in March this year. A total
of 4,54,045 students -- 2,63,286 boys and 1,90,759 girls --
had appeared for the Class XII examinations. The exams were
conducted across the country as well as overseas in March.
Nearly 6,500 overseas students had also appeared for the examinations.
The
CBSE results are available on the website www.cbse.nic.in
and www.cyberesult.nic.in. Apart from this, the results
are available at respective schools and also accessible through
SMS on mobile phones, Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS)
on phones as well. With the results also comes the stress.
The results declaration will not bring cheer to all the students.
To help the students at this critical juncture, free counselling
centres are being run across the country. The tele-counselling
on IVRS is available on the ten-digit number 1250-111-102
on the MTNL network in Delhi and Mumbai and the seven-digit
number 1250-1-02. Few schools are also doing the work of counselling.