NEW DELHI: The wait of class 12 students of Arts, Commerce and science streams is finally over as the Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the class 12th board exam results where over 88% students passed the examination.

Students can check their result online at cbse.nic.in. with their roll number and school number centre number and admit card ID.

Earlier on July 26, CBSE had informed the supreme court that the result of the pending exam will be evaluated on the basis of students’ performance in the previous examination and internal assessment. The board also said that the students of class 12 will be given an option to appear their pending exams to improve scores after the declaration of the results.

The HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal congratulated the successful students. In his tweet, the minister said, “Dear Students, Parents and Teachers! CBSE has announced the results of Class XII and can be accessed at cbseresults.nic.in. We congratulate you all for making this possible. I reiterate, Student’s health & quality education are our priority.”

As per CBSE ,88.78% students passed for class 12th. Last year the pass percentage was 83.40% now which has now increased by 5.38%.

Trivandrum has topped among districts with 97.67 per cent, followed by Bengaluru with 97.05 per cent and Chennai at 96.17 per cent. Whereas Delhi recorded a total of 94.3% pass percentage.

Over 12 lakh students who appeared in the CBSE class 12 examination, out of which, a total of 10.59 lakh (10,59,080) students cleared the class 12 exam successfully.