The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the class 10 results on its official website, cbse.nic.in

Pass percentage:The pass percentage is dipped by 5 per cent. The percentage falls to 90.95 per cent from 96.21 per cent last year.

Region-wise pass percentage:

Trivandrum region has scored the highest pass percentage at 99.85 followed by Madras at 99.62 per cent and Allahabad at 98.23 per cent.

Delhi’s pass percentage is dipped by over 13 per cent, 78.09 as against last year’s 91.06 per cent.

Check: CBSE Class 10 Board Results 2017: 3 easy steps to check your grades at cbseresults.nic.in

Passing marks:

Minimum 33 per cent has to be obtained by students in each subject in order to pass. They must score 33 per cent marks in both practicals/internals and the main examination.

Check: CBSE 10th results 2017 declared at cbseresults.nic, cbse.nic.in 

Number of candidates: 16,67,573

Board based: 8,84,710

School based: 7,82,863

Number of centres: 3,974

Number of schools: 16,354

CBSE Class 10 Results not available in the board premises:

The CBSE notified that the result will not be available in the board premises and the public is advised not to visit Board’s office for collection of results.

Verification of marks:

The process of verification will be displayed on CBSE’s website shortly.

This year, nearly 27 lakh candidates appeared for both class 10 and class 12 examination out of which 10,98,891 appeared for class 12 exam.

The board declared the class 12 results on May 28. Raksha Gopal of Amity International School emerged out as a topper with 99.6 per cent.

[Source”GSmerena”]