Girls performed better than boys in the Class 10 examinations of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) results for which were declared on Thursday.
According to a senior CBSE Board official, the percentage of girls who qualified for higher class is 97.82 this year, while for boys it is 96.98.
There was a decline in the overall pass percentage this year, which was 97.32 as compared to the 98.87 in the 2014.
The overall percentage of candidates qualified for admission in higher class in Thiruvananthapuram region is 99.77, which is the highest among all regions.
Overall pass per cent in Allahabad – 98.46, Dehradun – 97.37, Bhubaneswar – 97.15 & Patna – 98.10, Ajmer – 98.03, Panchkula – 97.97, Delhi – 96.29, Guwahati – 86.55, Chennai – 99.03, Trivandrum – 99.77.
The total number of registered candidates was 13,73,853 – an increase of 3.37 percent over 2014 figure.
