On Friday, the CBSE announced Class 12 results on https://cbseresults.nic.in. This year, the overall pass percentage in India is 99.37 per cent. Of the 13,04,561 students, 12,96,318 students have passed; 70,004 students have scored 95 per cent and above; and 1,50,152 students have scored 90-95 per cent. Securing marginally higher pass percentage, girls (99.67 per cent) have outperformed boys (99.13 per cent). Meanwhile, students from the transgender community have secured a 100 per cent pass percentage.
For the first time, foreign students can access their digital marksheets on their emails through CBSE DigiLocker page. Additionally, the CBSE is also for the first time giving access to schools on the academic repository ‘Parinam Manjusha’ to download digital academic documents of students through DigiLocker.
Shreya Shyamsundar, a student of RN Podar School, Santacruz, who scored 98.2 per cent under the Humanities stream, said, “Honestly, I was looking forward to a pen and paper mode exam, but this year there was a lot of uncertainty owing to the cancellation.” Shreya said she had taken up Biology along with Humanities and dropped Psychology. “I am glad my parents gave me the freedom to choose my subjects. I am happy with my final score,” she said.
Sarthak Das, a student of Bal Bharati Public School, Navi Mumbai, who scored 98.2 per cent under the Commerce stream and wants to pursue Law, said, “All of us were a bit anxious about the assessment policy. Fortunately, I had performed reasonably well in Class X and Class 11, so I was confident about my scores.
Principal of CBSE-affiliated Bal Bharati Public School, Navi Mumbai, Kalpana Dwivedi said the results are good and students have performed well. She said, “Even though exams were not conducted, there was a lot of checking and moderation done by teachers, schools and the CBSE.” The principal of Ramsheth Thakur Public School, Kharghar, Raj Aloni felt that the overall results are quite good because students have scored high marks.”
Among all regions, the pass percentage of Trivandrum, Kerala stands at 99.89, followed by Delhi (east and west) at 99.84 and Bengaluru at 99.83 per cent. Pune stands at 99.35 per cent.
Meanwhile, the CBSE will conduct compartment or optional exams between August 16 and September 15. This is for students who are not satisfied with their marks and for private candidates who were regular students in CBSE earlier and failed to qualify in the first or second attempt of board exams.
This year, Class 12 exams were cancelled due to the second wave of Covid-19. The board released the assessment policy, stating that the theory portion of up to 80 marks would be assessed by the school based on 40 per cent of the final marks scored in unit tests, mid-term and pre-board exams of Class 12. Moreover, 30 per cent marks are based on theory component of Class 11 final exams and remaining 30 per cent on the average theory component of best three performing subjects out of five main subjects in Class 10.
