New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared its Class 10 Board or Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination results this afternoon. The results can be accessed on cbse.nic.in, results.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in

Trivandrum region has highest pass percentage at 99.85, followed by Chennai region at 99.62. Allahabad region is third with 98.23 pass percentage. Delhi region has pass percentage of 78.09. Class 10th pass percentage is 90.95, a dip of over 5 percentage points from last year’s 96.21.

The results were declared in the form of Cumulative Grade Points Average (CGPA): It is the average of Grade Points obtained in all the subjects excluding the sixth additional subject as per the scheme of the exam.

This year 16,67,573 students have given Class 10th exam out of which 7,81,463 students appeared in CBSE’s school-based exam and 8,86,506 students took the board-based exam.