Girls Outperform Boys Again in CBSE Class 10 and 12 Exams; Fewer Students Score Above 90%

Overall pass percentage rises slightly — 93.66% in Class 10 and 88.39% in Class 12

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NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday declared the results for Class 10 and 12 board examinations, with girls continuing to register a higher success rate than boys. The overall pass percentages in both classes saw a slight increase, even as the number of high-scoring candidates declined compared to last year.

In Class 12, 88.39 per cent of the students passed the examination, a modest improvement over the previous year's 87.98 per cent. Class 10 results showed a pass percentage of 93.66, a slight rise from 93.60 per cent in 2024.

Girls led the performance chart in both grades. In Class 12, they surpassed boys by 5.94 percentage points. The margin in Class 10 stood at 2.37 percentage points. The performance of transgender candidates in Class 12 stood at 100 per cent, a significant jump from 50 per cent last year. In Class 10, transgender students registered a 95 per cent pass rate, up from 91.30 per cent. The board did not release the exact number of transgender candidates who appeared for the exams.

CBSE Examination Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj attributed the slight uptick in pass percentages to structural changes in the examination format.