CBSE 12th Result 2019 toppers list: Hansika Shukla, Karishma Arora top CBSE Class 12 board exams with 99.8%

CBSE Class 12 Result 2019 declared | Hansika Shukla and Karishma Arora emerged the Class 12 CBSE toppers, both with scores of 499 out of 500. Shukla is from Delhi Public School in Ghaziabad and Arora, from SD Public School at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the results for the Class 12 board exams today on its official website. Candidates can check their result on cbse.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in. [caption id=“attachment_6169191” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Represenational image. News18[/caption] Follow LIVE updates here Three students share the second rank with a score of 498 out of 500. These are Gaurangi Chawala from Rishikesh, Aishwarya from Raebareli and Bhavya from Haryana’s Jind. Neeraj Jindal and Mehak Talwar from Delhi are among the 18 students who came in third in the CBSE Class 12 exams. The board conducted the Class 12 exams from 15 February to 4 April. This year, 13 lakh students appeared for the CBSE Class 12 board exams_._ The overall pass percentage this year has increased marginally to 83.4 percent.The number of students clearing the exam has been on an  upward slope since 2016. It is a rise from last year when pass percentage was 83.01 percent. In 2017, the same was 82.02 percent. This year, girls outperformed boys by 9 percent. While 88.70 percent of girls passed, 83.3 percent of transgenders cleared the exams and 79.4 percent boys passed. In 2018, Meghna Srivastava of Step by Step School, Noida,emerged as the national topper rank with 499 marks out of 500 while Anoushka Chandra from Ghaziabad secured the second position with 498 marks. Both toppers belonged to the humanities stream. Vijay Ganesh from Kerala ranked first in the differently able category with a score of 492. Pooja Kumari of Dehradun secured the second position with 489 while Lavanya Jha of Delhi came third with 487.