CBSE Class X results declared

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced its Class 10 examination results for Delhi, Guwahati, Panchkula and Allahabad regions today.the total pass percentage this year is 89.9 per cent, which is 7 per cent more compared to last year’s 82.9 per cent.The girls have once again topped with a pass percentage of 90.52 per cent compared to boys who have a pass percentage of 88.10 per cent. Over 700,000 candidates from 7,658 schools had appeared for the Class 10 examination both in India and abroad - an increase of 8.11 per cent over last year.CBSE had set up 2,490 examination centres, including 49 for foreign schools, for the smooth conduct of the examination between March 2 and 28 this year.In Delhi alone, about 2, 07, 317 candidates had registered for the Class X exams.In the year 2007, a total of 705857 candidates appeared for the class 10-board examination - an 8.93 percent increase in number of candidates over the last year.At 93.87 percent, the overall pass percentage of Ajmer region is the highest as compared to other five regions. Chennai ranks second in the table of regions with a pass percentage of 93.47 percent, followed by Panchkula with 89.08 percent and Allahabad with 87.44 percent.Delhi stands fifth in the list with a pass percent of 77.18 percent and Guwahati region has performed the worst with a pass percentage of only 56 percent.