CBSE RESULT

The first phase of results for the Std XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) were declared at 8 am on Wednesday in the western region of Ajmer and Chennai, which also comprises Maharashtra.The Chennai region comprises Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Girls outshone boys in the CBSE XII exams whose results were declared today for the Chennai region. K Vijayakumar of DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Gopalapuram and Nisha Hariharan of Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram, topped the list with 490 marks each, out of 500. Sindu Hariharan of PS Senior Secondary School came second with 489. Rohini of DAV Girls Higher Secondary School, Gopalapuram, Chennai and two students from Kerala, Marian Mathew of Rajagiri Public Senior School, Ernakulam and Sobin Mathew of Narayana Public School, Quilon, shared the third rank with 488 marks. overall pass percentage was 91.38. The pass percentage of girls was 92.68 while for boys, it was 90.35.In the Maharashtra region, the CBSE examination results for the Kendriya Vidyalayas were coordinated by the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatana (KVS), Mumbai. “Of the 35 Kendriya Vidyalayas where the CBSE Std XII examination was conducted, the pass percentage of students was 95.42 per cent.Out of a total of 4,943 candidates from Tamil Nadu, 4,765 were successful — 96. 40 per cent — up nearly two percentage points from last year's 94.79 per cent.At least 350 CBSE students in Tamil Nadu secured more than 197 out of a possible 200 (in engineering cut-off marks) after normalisation.