Tamil Nadu registered a 98.74% pass rate among students who took up the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 board exams. This is a marginal increase from last year’s 98.52% pass rate in the region. The CBSE class 12 results were announced on Monday, May 13, 2024, with the national pass percentage standing at 87.98%.
As many as 40,325 boys and 34,012 girls from Tamil Nadu wrote the exam where girls outperformed boys (98.4%) with 99.14%. The Chennai region stood third in the country after the Trivandrum and Vijayawada regions with 98.47 pass rate. The Chennai region includes Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands as well as Daman and Diu.
The CBSE exams began on February 15 and concluded on April 2. The supplementary exams will be conducted from July 15 onwards.
P.G. Subramanian, principal, Bhavan’s Rajaji Vidyashram, Kilpauk, said the overall results were quite good. “The pass percentage of the region has also gone up this year. The results this year have been better than last year too,” he said.
Meanwhile, teachers in the city have also pointed out that the centums scored this year have come down.
N. Vijayan, founder-correspondent of Zion Group of Schools also stated that while the pass percentage of the State and region have gone up, the number of centums scored by the students have come down considerably.
A. Lakshmi Prabha, senior principal, Prasan Vidya Mandir, said, “Centums in physics and Mathematics have come down as the papers were difficult but many have scored centums in Chemistry. It’s good that the results have all come out in a timely manner, as these children will also be on a par with others for college admissions.”
Class 10 results
In the class 10 exams, Tamil Nadu registered a 99.84% pass rate, a slight increase from last year’s 99.73%. Again, the Chennai region came third in the country with 98.47%. The national pass percentage stood at 93.6%. The class X exams began on February 15 and concluded on March 13. In Tamil Nadu, 51,880 boys and 43,558 girls wrote the Class X exams. Girls outperformed boys in this year’s examination with a pass percentage of 99.91 while boys were at 99.79%.
Students can access their results through any of the four CBSE websites: www.cbse.gov.in; www.cbseresults.nic.in; www.results.digilocker.gov.in and www.umang.gov.in. Students can access their result documents through the Digilocker app, while the printed marksheets will be available at their schools.
As the results were announce, CBSE will also be running a counselling service from May 14 and students can call 1800-11-8004 for information and other help regarding overcoming mental stress.
