January 8, 2014, 12:02 pm
The exam result of Boards Class 12th 2014, is expected in the third week of May. In 2013, a total of 21.76 lakh student had appeared for the Board exams whereas, this year a total of 22.65 lakh students have registered themselves for the CBSE Board exams.
Class 12th candidates rose by 20,000 in strength from the previous year amounting to a total of 9.40 lakh students for the final 12th Board exams. The reason in the adding up of the number of students is the increase in the number of schools being affiliated to CBSE.
For the current session a total of 800 new schools have registered themselves with CBSE to form a fleet of 14,700 schools in the Board. CBSE affiliated schools are becoming choice of people since the awareness of their providing quality education is rising. Last year, around 82% students had cleared the CBSE class XII examination, with girls outshining the boys. Also, Chennai region beat others in the overall pass percentage. Chennai put up the best performance of 91.83. The total pass percentage last year was 82.10 percent Girls continued to fare better than boys with 87.98 per cent clearing the exam as compared to 77.78 per cent boys.
