Delhi Girl Sukriti Gupta has topped the CBSE Class XII board exams with 99.4 percent. Gupta, a student of Montfort School, Ashok Vihar, scored 497 marks out of 500.
At second position is Palak Goel from Tagore Public School in Kurukshetra, Haryana with 496 marks. The third position has been shared by Somy Uppal from St Theresa’s Convent School in Haryana’s Karnal and Ajish Sekar from PSBB Senior Secondary School, Chennai. They both have scored 495 marks.
In the differently-abled category, Mudita Jagota, a student from DAV Public School, Faridabad is the topper with 485 marks.
The second and third position have been bagged by Siddhartha Biswas from Kendriya Vidyalaya, RK Puram and Raskhit Malik from Amity International School, Noida. They have scored 484 and 482 marks respectively.
With a pass percentage of 88.58 percent, girls once again outperformed boys in the CBSE Class XII Board examination, the results of which were declared on Saturday. Boys recorded a pass percentage of 78.85 percent.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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