CBSE Class 12 results declared: 5.38% dip in pass percentage

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared its Class 12 results on Friday. Over 38 lakh students appeared for the exams this year, out of which 87.33 per cent students cleared the exams. Girls have outperformed boys, which has been the trend mostly in the previous years too.

The board said that it conducted live webinars for all the affiliated schools at the start of the examinations, which was attended by 1 lakh teachers of CBSE schools. While there has been a dip in the pass percentage from previous year, it bettered the pass percentage of 83.40 per cent of 2019 in the pre-COVID period.