CBSE 12th Result 2019: Ghaziabad's Hansika Shukla, Muzaffarnagar's Karishma Arora top Class 12 board exam

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday announced the CBSE 12 Result 2019. The results are available on the CBSE's official website - cbseresults.nic.in and cbse.nic.in.

CBSE 12th Result 2019: Hansika Shukla and Karishma Arora have emerged as the topper of Class 12 board exam. The CBSE 12th results were announced on Thursday. The overall pass percentage in 2019 is 83.4 as opposed to 83.01 per cent in 2018.

Both Hansika Shukla and Karishma Arora secured 499 out of 500 marks in the exams. While Hansika Shukla is from DPS Meerut road in Ghaziabad, Karishma Arora is from SD public school in Muzaffarnagar. 

There are three students on the second spot. The second position holders are Gaurangi Chawla from Nirmal Ashram Deepmala public school in Rishikesh,  Aishwarya of Kendriya Vidyalaya Raebareli and Bhavya from Jind in Haryana. Neeraj Jindal and Mehak Talwar from Delhi are among 18 students to rank third in the exams.

Here's the full list of toppers:

	Candidate's Name	Total Marks	Name of School and Address
1	HANSIKA SHUKLA	499	DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL MEERUT RD GHAZIABAD UP
2	KARISHMA ARORA	499	S D PUBLIC SCHOOL MUZAFFARNAGAR UP
3	GAURANGI CHAWLA	498	NIRMAL ASHRAM DEEPMALA P PUB SCH RISHIKESH UK
4	AISHWARYA	498	KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO 1 RAE BARELI UP
5	BHAVYA	498	B R S K INTERNATIONAL PUB SCH SAFIDON JIND HRY
6	AYUSHI UPADHYAY	497	LUCKNOW PUBLIC SCH SOUTH CITY LUCKNOW UP
7	MEHAK TALWAR	497	DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL SEC-24 PHASE III ROHINI ND
8	PARTH SAINI	497	ST LUKE`S SR SEC SCHOOL SOLAN HP
9	VEERAJ JINDAL	497	VASANT VALLEY SCHOOL VASANT KUNJ NEW DELHI
10	ANANYA GOEL	497	K L INTNL SCH SOMDUTT VIHAR GARH RD MEERUT UP
11	RUBANI CHEEMA	497	VIDYA DEVI JINDAL SCHOOL HISAR HARYANA
12	AISHNA JAIN	497	S A J SCHOOL SEC-14C VASUNDHRA GHAZIABAD UP
13	VANSHIKA BHAGAT	497	MEERUT PUB GIRLS SCH SHASTRI NAGAR MEERUT UP
14	ARPIT MAHESHWARI	497	DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL MEERUT RD GHAZIABAD UP
15	DISHANK JINDAL	497	BHAVAN`S VIDYALAYA SECTOR 27-B CHANDIGARH
16	DIVYA AGGARWAL	497	MEERUT PUB GIRLS SCH SHASTRI NAGAR MEERUT UP
17	PIYUSH KUMAR JHA	497	OAK GROVE SCHOOL P O JHARIPANI DEHRADUN UK
18	TISHA GUPTA	497	ST ANSELM'S SCHOOL DELHI ROAD ALWAR RAJASTHAN
19	G KARTHIK BALAJI	497	P S B B SR SEC SCHOOL K K NAGAR CHENNAI TN
20	GARIMA SHARMA	497	VISHWA BHARATI PUB SCH SEC28 ARUN VIHAR NOIDA UP
21	IBADAT SINGH BAKSHI	497	APEEJAY SCHOOL SECTOR-16 A NOIDA G B NAGAR UP
22	PRAGYA KHARKWAL	497	S A J SCHOOL SEC-14C VASUNDHRA GHAZIABAD UP
23	SHREYA PANDE	497	A V BIRLA INST OF LEARNING HALDWANI NAINITAL UK

After the announcement of the results, CBSE said that girls have performed better than boys by a whopping nine per cent marks. While 88.7% of girls passed, boys got scored 79.4 per cent. 

The three regions which stood at the top in the result tally are Trivandrum (Kerala) with 98.2 per cent pass, Chennai with 92.93 per cent and Delhi with 91.87 per cent. The Chennai region includes Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Foreign schools have secured a pass percentage of 95.43%.

CBSE 12th Result 2019 were earlier expected to be released in the first week of May 2019. However, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the results within 28 days of the last date of the examination. The exams had been held from February 15 till April 4 while Class 10 exams were conducted from February 21 till March 29. Around 13 lakh students appeared for the examination