JOIN USRaksha Gopal, a student of humanities from Noida in Uttar Pradesh, topped the CBSE Class XII board examinations, securing a whopping 99.6%. The Central Board of Secondary Education declared the results on Sunday.
Raksha has set an example for others with her remarkable feat as getting high scores in the humanities stream is always considered to be tougher than in the science and commerce streams.
Last year, Sukriti Gupta, a science student from Delhi, had topped the Class XII examinations by scoring 99.4%.
Raksha, a student of Amity International School in Noida, secured 498 marks out of 500. She got 100 marks each in english core, political science, and economics, and 99 marks each in history and psychology.
Chandigarh’s Bhoomi Sawant, a science student at DAV School, came in second, securing 497 marks (99.4 %).
Aditya Jain and Mannat Luthra, who too were from Chandigarh, came third in the country with 496 marks (99.2%). Aditya and Mannat were students of commerce at Bhavan Vidyalaya.
“I was expecting about 95%, but 99.6% was unimaginable,” Raksha told a news agency.
More than 10.20 lakh students of 10,673 schools took this year’s Class XII examinations which saw girls performing better than boys for yet another year.
While the pass percentage of the girls was pegged at 87.50, only 78% boys cleared the examinations held by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) from March 9 to April 29 across the country. The overall pass percentage stood at 82.02.
Decline this year
A comparative data, released by the CBSE, indicated a decline in the number of students clearing the board examinations by 1.03% over that of the examinations held last year.
Among the special students, Ajay R Raj of St Thomas School, Mukkolakkal, Thiruvananthapuram, emerged as the country topper as he secured 98% (490 marks out of 500) in the examinations.
Lakshmi P V of Palghat Lions School, Palakkad, Kerala, grabbed the second position by scoring 97.2% (486 marks), while Darshan M V of Nalanda International Public School, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, came third with 96.6 % (483 marks).
T’puram leads the way
Thiruvananthapuram region of the CBSE registered the highest pass percentage (95.62%) of students, followed by Chennai 92.60 % and Delhi 88.37%.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas registered the highest pass percentage of students (95.73%), followed by Kendriya Vidyalayas (94.60%).
The overall pass percentage of the students of state government schools remained at 82.29, government aided 81.63 and private schools 79.27. Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar spoke to the toppers and congratulated them for their performance.
“Congratulations to all my young friends who have successfully passed the CBSE Class XII exams & best wishes for future endeavours,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi.