Overall pass percentage recorded this year is 96.21, which is lower than the last year's percentage of 97.32

Updated on: Monday, May 30, 2016

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 results have been declared on the official website, the link for which is http://www.studyguideindia.com/Exam-Results/cbse-10th-results.asp.

Pass percentage:

The overall pass percentage recorded this year is 96.21, which is lower than the last year's percentage of 97.32
Thiruvananthapuram region witnessed the highest pass percentage of 99.77 in the country, according to the CBSE Class 10 results
Continuing with the tradition, the girls have yet again outperformed boys. The pass percentage of girls has been recorded at 96.36 as compared to boys, who managed 96.11 percentage.
In all, 14,91,293 candidates were registered for the class 10 board examination this year. This amounts to an increase of around 8.5 per cent candidates from last year.
The exam were conducted between March 1 and continued till March 28. The board successfully held the examination in 3742 exam centres across the country.

A total of 1,68,541 students scored a perfect 10 CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average), of them 85,316 were boys and 83,225 were girls.

The board had declared the class 12 results on Saturday, May 21. The pass percentage of the girls was 88.58 per cent as compared to that of boys which was 78.85 per cent.

About CBSE:

The Central Board of Secondary education (CBSE) was founded on November 3, 1962 and has its headquarters in Preet Vihar, New Delhi. The CBSE is responsible for regulating and supervising the development of education in the country.

It's primary function includes to prepare academic programmes and organise examinations, especially for class 10 and class 12 students.

Overall pass percentage recorded this year is 96.21, which is lower than the last year's percentage of 97.32

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