CBSE RESULT

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 students in Gulf countries have recorded a whopping 96.68 pass percentage this year, about 12 per cent more than what their counterparts have achieved in India. The CBSE announced the class 10 examination results on Tuesday with an overall pass percentage of 84.44 per cent.
This year, a total of 9,787 candidates from 91 schools appeared for the examination from Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, of which 9,462 qualified. While 93.78 per cent students passed last year, according to the CBSE, this year 2.9 percent more students have passed the examination.The CBSE results for Class X have brought all smiles to Army school students with 97 per cent of them having passed the exam. As much as 83 per cent of class X and XII CBSE students from 123 Army schools across the country have obtained the first division. With a pass percentage of 94 per cent, Army school students of Class XII have achieved a pass percentage 14 per cent higher than the overall national pass percentage for Class XII CBSE students.The total number of merit certificates issued by the CBSE this year is almost double that of the past year — a whopping 11,162 compared with 5,683 in 2006. Of these, 101 and 26 certificates have been awarded to students of Government and Government-aided schools across the country. The maximum number of merit certificates — 5,251 — has been issued for Mathematics. As many as 5,251 candidates have secured cent per cent marks in Mathematics, while in Science the number of students who have scored 100 has come down sharply from 936 in 2006 to 250 this year. As many as 2,923 candidates — 1,619 girls and 1,304 boys — scored 95 per cent and above marks in the Class X examination, while 28,187 students — comprising 13,976 girls and 14,211 boys — touched the 90 per cent and above bracket this year. Sixteen disabled candidates have secured more than 90 per cent marks this year. The number of girls securing 60 per cent or more marks has increased to 156,887 this year from 138,424 in 2006.