
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 examination results have been declared. Students can access their results on three websites: cbseresults.nic.in, results.nic.in and cbse.nic.in. Earlier, a CBSE notification had said that the results would be announced at 12 noon, however, it was declared at around 10. 45 am.
Pass percentage of girls for CBSE class 12 results is 88.58 per cent, and pass percentage of boys is 78.85 per cent.
Overall pass percentage of Thiruvananthapuram region in Kerala is highest in the country with 97.61 per cent.
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CBSE class 12 results 2016: 83.05 per cent students passed, 2.38 per cent higher than 2015
This year, a total of 10,67,900 candidates have registered for the Class 12 exam as against 10,40,368 in 2015. The CBSE exams started from March 1, 2016 and concluded on April 22.
Delhi Girl Sukriti Gupta has topped the CBSE Class XII board exams with 99.4 per cent. Gupta, a student of Montfort School, Ashok Vihar, scored 497 marks out of 500. At second position is Palak Goel from Tagore Public School in Kurukshetra, Haryana with 496 marks.
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The third position has been shared by Somy Uppal from St Theresa’s Convent School in Haryana’s Karnal and Ajish Sekar from PSBB Senior Secondary School, Chennai. They both have scored 495 marks.

Many students complained that the Mathematics paper was tough this year. There were also reports about the paper being leaked.
Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani on May 17 said the results of CBSE Board exams for Class 10 and 12 will be declared “on time” before the end of this month and, as per a decision taken earlier, state boards are also expected to declare their results by May 31.
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The Government on March 15 favoured a probe into the reported leak of a CBSE Class 12 examination paper.
CBSE class 12th results: How to check your marks
Follow the steps to know your result:
1. Log on to cbse.nic.in or cbseresults.nic.in or results.nic.in
2. Click on Exam Results
3. Click on Senior School Certificate Examination (Class XII ) 2016
4. Enter your Roll number as per your admit card
5. Enter your Date of Birth (Type DOB in dd/mm/yyyy format) and click submit.
“Starting this year, CBSE will also provide Class XII digital mark sheets in DigiLocker at digilocker.gov.in. The DigiLocker account credentials will be sent to students via SMS on their mobile number registered with CBSE,” an official statement said.
Students can send sms writing cbse12 to 51115 to get their class 12th scores. This sms service is live on Vodafone, Airtel, Tata Docomo and Idea and will be charged Re 1 for each message.

The results will also be available via Android mobile app, DigiResults.
CBSE 10th Result 2016 is not announced yet. It is expected that the results for CBSE Class 10 will be declared between May 27 to May 30, 2016.
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