Akshat Aggarwal of Hazaribagh tops in Jharkahnd with 98.2 per cent marks.

Ranchi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the CBSE 12 Result 2019 on Thursday in which for yet another year the girls have outperformed the boys. The results declared by CBSE show that girls have performed better than boys by a difference of 9 per cent. Around 88.7 pc of girls have passed the CBSE Class 12 exam this year as compared to 79.4 pc boys. The overall pass percentage is 83.4 as opposed to 83.01 per cent in 2018.

Hansika Sharma and Karishma Arora, both from UP, have scored 499 marks each and have been declared joint toppers of the CBSE Class 12 exam 2019. Among the three regions which stood at the top are - Trivandrum (Kerala) with 98.2 per cent pass, Chennai with 92.93 per cent and Delhi with 91.87 per cent. In Jharkhand Akshat Aggarwal of Hazaribagh has emerged as the state topper with 98.2 per cent marks.