The  Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the class 12 exam results on Friday. Maintaining the previous trend, girls outshone boys by a margin of 0.54%. The pass percentage for the current academic year is 99.37%. 

The class 10 and 12 results last year saw girls lead their male counterparts by 3.17% and 5.96 % respectively. Over 70,000 students scored above 95% marks.

Also read: How to check Class 12 results. A step-by-step guide

“Girls have done better than boys by 0.54 percent. The pass percentage this year is 99.37%. No merit list has been announced,” a senior board official said.

The result for over 65,000 candidates is still being prepared and will be declared by August 5. 

A total of 70,004 students have scored above 95% marks while 1,50,152 students have scored above 90%. Last year, the pass percentage stood at 88.78 %, which was an increase of 5.38 % from 2019. 

  Also Read | ‘Meme bana leta hu’: Anxious students respond to CBSE’s Chellum Sir meme

As many as “6149 students have been placed in a compartment,” the official said.

The board exams were cancelled this year in view of the aggressive second wave of COVID-19, and the result will be announced on basis of an alternate assessment policy by the board.

  According to the evaluation policy decided by a 13-member panel set up by the CBSE for preparing Class 12 results, 30 % weightage was given to Class 10 marks, 30 % to Class 11 marks and 40 % to Class 12 marks obtained in unit test/mid-term/pre-board exams.