Agencies
Girls outshone boys in the CBSE Class 12 results announced today with Meghna Srivastava, from a Noida school, topping the examination this year.
The overall pass percentage was 83.01 per cent as against last year's 82.02 per cent.
Girls did better than boys with a pass percentage of 88.31 per cent against boys' 78.99 per cent, officials at the CBSE headquarters said here.
Meghna Srivastava topped the CBSE Class 12 examination getting 99.8%. She secured 499 marks out of 500. She is a student of Step By Step School, Noida, and is from the Humanities stream.
She scored 99 in English (Core), while in other subjects --Psychology, History, Geography and Economics -- she scored 100.
The second position was bagged by another girl, Anoushka Chand, also a humanities stream student from a school in Ghaziabad. She got 498 marks out of 500.
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