Girls outshine boys in CBSE Class 12 results
Girls outshone boys in the CBSE Class 12 results announced on Saturday with Meghna Srivastava, from a Noida school, topping the examination this year.
The overall pass percentage was 83.01 percent as against last year’s 82.02 percent.
Girls did better than boys with a pass percentage of 88.31 percent against boys’ 78.99 percent, officials at the CBSE headquarters said here.
Meghna Srivastava topped the CBSE Class 12 examination getting 99.8%. She secured 499 marks out of 500. She is a student of Step By Step School, Noida, and is from the Humanities stream.
She scored 99 in English (Core), while in other subjects — Psychology, History, Geography and Economics — she scored 100.
The second position was bagged by another girl, Anoushka Chand, also a humanities stream student from a school in Ghaziabad. She got 498 marks out of 500.
She scored 98 in English (Core) and 100 in History, Economics, Political science and Psychology.
The best performing region was Trivandrum in Kerala with a pass percentage of 97.32 percent. Chennai region’s pass percentage was second best at 93.87 percent.
Delhi was at the third spot with 89 percent pass percentage, the officials said.
The overall pass percentage of the Delhi region saw an increase from 88.37 percent in 2017 to 89 percent this year.
For Meghna Srivastava, the topper of CBSE Class XII examination, there was no secret formula for her success but only consistent hard work that had paid off.
Meghna, a resident of Noida, studied at the Step By Step School and secured 99 marks in the English (Core) exam. In all other subjects, namely Psychology, History, Geography and Economics, she scored a perfect 100.
“It has been a really thrilling experience. There is no secret and one has to work hard throughout the year,” she told reporters on Saturday, after results for the Class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exam were declared.
“I like baking and I used to watch a lot of TV,” says the young girl, adding that she likes listening to music and reading nonfiction books.
However, her hobbies never meant that she was not serious about her studies.
“I had no particular style of studying and I never counted the number of hours I studied, but I must have studied around seven-eight hours a day,” says Meghna, a Humanities student, stressing that she was consistent, stable and relaxed.
“You have to be consistent so that you do not panic at the last minute,” she said.
Meghna, who loves psychology, says she has got into the University of British Columbia, Canada, and would start her classes in August.
Her 99 marks in the English paper robbed her a perfect 500 out of 500 score in the Class XII board exams.
Second ranked Anoushka Chandra, who studied in Ghaziabad’s SAJ School, scored 498 marks out of 500.
Seven students, meanwhile, shared the third spot, with 497.
As has been the pattern in previous years, this year too girls outperformed boys in the Class XII exam with an overall passing percentage of 88.31, compared to 78.09 for boys.
The overall pass percentage this year is 83.01, up one percentage point since last year.
CBSE officials said 12,737 candidates scored 95 per cent or above and 72,599 candidates scored 90 per cent and above.