CBSE Class 12 results out, topper Meghna Srivastava gets 499 out of 500

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared Class 12 board examinations results today.

Girls outshone boys 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 the boys with a pass percentage of 88.31 per cent against boys' 78.99 per cent, officials at the CBSE headquarters said.

Meghna Srivastava topped the CBSE Class 12 examination getting 99.8 per cent. She secured 499 marks out of 500. She is a student of Step By Step School, Noida, and is from the Humanities stream.

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.

The third position was held by seven students who got 497 marks out of 500, the officials said.

The best performing region was Trivandrum in Kerala with a pass percentage of 97.32 per cent. Chennai region's pass percentage was second best at 93.87 per cent. Delhi was at the third spot with 89 per cent pass percentage, the officials said.

The results are released on cbse.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in. Students can also check their results on Google.

11,86,306 students had registered for Class 12 exams which were held at 4,138 centres in India and 71 centres abroad.

Steps to check CBSE Class 12 exam results 2018:

1. Visit the official websites of CBSE - cbse.nic.in or cbseresults.nic.in

2. Click on the link for result 2018

3. Enter your roll number and other required details correctly

4. Click on submit

5. Result will be displayed on screen

6. Take down a print of the result

(With PTI inputs)