NEW DELHI:
In an extraordinary feat, 13 students have scored one mark less than the picture-perfect 500 marks in CBSE class 10 board exam this year. The first position, in CBSE class 10 result, is jointly shared by 13 students who have scored 499 out of 500 marks. The toppers are Siddhant Pengoriya, Divyansh Wadhwa, Yogesh Kumar Gupta, Ankur Mishra, Vatsal Varshney, Manya, Aryan Jha, Taru Jain, Bhavana N Sivadas, Ish Madan, Divjot Kaur Jaggi, Apoorva Jain and Shivani Lath.
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared the class 10 result within 38 days of the exam. Last year the CBSE class 10 result came after 55 days. This year, the Board also announced the class 12 result within a record time of 28 days on May 2. More than 18 lakh students appeared for CBSE class 10 exam this year. The result is available on the official website cbseresults.nic.in. The exact details of the result is yet to be announced by the Board. In 2018, CBSE 10th results were released on May 29. Last year, 86.70 per cent students passed in the class 10th examination. The result last year was lower than 2017 when 90.95 per cent students had passed.