CBSE results: Flying colours for Kuwaiti students

Here again, the girls performed better than the boys as the figures stood at 315 out of 334 for girls and 303 out of 350 for boys.

‘‘There is a marginal drop of two per cent in the pass percentage of the Kuwaiti students, but it is very insignificant given the adverse conditions during the war,’’ CBSE Controller of Examinations Pavnesh Kumar said.

Last year, 708 Kuwaiti students from eight schools in three centres had registered with CBSE, of which 705 eventually appeared for the exams.

Pass percentage stood at 92.2 per cent with 650 of them scoring above the required limit. ‘‘Its worth noticing that Kuwait’s pass percentage this year is still higher than Chennai region, the highest scoring region in India,’’ Kumar said.

CBSE had made special arrangements to facilitate disruption-free examinations for its students in Kuwait. In an unprecedented move, CBSE had even allowed candidates from Kuwait to take the exam from centres in India.

While nine students flew to Chennai, two appeared from Ajmer region to take their exams. Although result-related information for class X students will be announced on Saturday, Kumar said there were more than 10 class X students from Kuwait who took their exams from Allahabad, Chennai and Ajmer regions.

‘‘Though Doha centre was still closer, but the relaxation was made only in the case of students residing in Kuwait,’’ he said. From other Gulf centres, CBSE enrolled 4,795 students from 48 schools. The Board has centres in 14 countries including Nepal, Russia, Ethiopia, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.