The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results for the Class 10 exams on Monday, 6 May. Thirteen students have scored 499 in the exam, with seven of them being from the Dehradun region.
The second and third rank were shared by 24 and 58 students, respectively.
A total of 2.25 lakh students scored above 90 per cent and 57,256 scored above 95 per cent.
Here’s the list of thirteen toppers who scored 499 are:
- Siddhant Pengoriya - Dehradun
- Divyanshi Wadhwa - Dehradun
- Yogesh Kumar Gupta - Prayagraj
- Ankur Mishra - Dehradun
- Vatsal Varshney - Dehradun
- Manya - Panchkula
- Aryan Jha - Ajmer
- Bhavana N Sivadas - Trivandrum
- Ish Madan - Dehradun
- Taru Jain - Ajmer
- Divjot Kaur Jaggi - Panchkula
- Apoorva Jain - Dehradun
- Shivani Lath - Dehradun
The Trivandrum region performed the best with a pass percentage of 99.85, followed by Chennai and Ajmer with 99 and 95.89 respectively. Delhi ranked second last with a pass percentage of 80.97 and Guwahati was last with 74.49.
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