Meghna secures 499 marks out of 500 at CBSE XII exam

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New Delhi : The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared Class XII results on May 26, 2018. Trivandrum performed best amongst all regions with 97.32% pass percentage followed by Chennai region with 93.87% while Delhi stands at third position with 89% pass percentage.

Altogether 11,06,772 students appeared at the exam of which 9,18,763 students passed the exam. Overall pass percentage of this year is 83.01% which is nearly 1% more than last year.

Meghna Srivastava of Step by Step School, Sec-132, Taj Expressway, Noida, UP, topped with 499 marks out of 500.

Total pass percentage of boys is 78.99% while pass percentage of girls is 88.31% which is 9.32% better than boys. A total of 72,599 students scored more than 90% while 12,737 students scored more than 95% in this exam. This year CBSE conducted Class XII exam from March 5 to April 27, 2018, according to a PIB release.

Meghna Srivastava is from the Humanities stream. The second position was bagged by  Anoushka Chand, also a humanities stream student from SAJ School, Sector 14 C, Vashundhra, Ghaziabad, UP. She got 498 marks out of 500.

The third position was held by seven students: Chahat Bodhraj, Neeraj Modi School Mansarovar Jaipur Raj, Ashtha Bamba, BCM Arya Model School, Shashtrinagar, Ludhiana, Tanuja Kapri, Gayatree Vidyapeeth Shantikunj Haridwar, Supriya Kaushik, Cambridge School, Sector 27, Noida, Nakul Gupta, DPS Rajnagar, Ghaziabad, Kshitij Anand, S AJ School, Ghaziabad, and Ananya Singh, Meerut Public Girls School, Shastrinagar, Meerut, who got 497 marks out of 500.