CBSE 10th Result 2017: Board announces result, pass percentage dips

The pass percentage of the CBSE Class X exam has fallen to 90.95% from 96.21% last year, registering a dip of over 5%, officials said on Saturday.

The Central Board of Secondary Education declared results of Class X for five regions, including the national capital.

The other four regions are Allahabad, Chennai, Dehradun and Trivandrum.

CBSEclassXthresults: Pass percentage of Delhi region is 78.09%. @dna

— Fareeha Iftikhar (@iftikharfariha) June 3, 2017

Trivandrum region has highest pass percentage at 99.85, followed by Madras and Allahabad with 99.62 and 98.23: CBSE @dna

— Fareeha Iftikhar (@iftikharfariha) June 3, 2017

The results for other regions will be announced soon, a senior official said.

Anxious students and parents had to wait for the results as the board's website crashed half an hour before the result was scheduled to be declared due to heavy traffic.

A total of 16,67,573 candidates had appeared for the exam this year.

On May 28, the board had declared the results for class XII which had seen a dip of over one per cent in the pass percentage.