13-05-2025
Class X board results: Tamil Nadu tops India with 99.86%
Tamil Nadu emerged topper in the country along with Kerala, achieving a 99.86% pass percentage in the CBSE Class X board exams. Of the 1,03,259 students who appeared, 1,03,117 cleared it.
Preethi and Sanjana of
Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School
in Chennai's Chetpet scored 495 of 500 marks. City school students scored centum in Tamil, science, and maths. Modern Senior Secondary School in Nanganallur recorded the highest number of centum in Tamil, with 12 students achieving the distinction. "In our school, all Class X students cleared the exam. We have four centums in science and Tamil and five in maths this year," said Vasanthi Sundararajan, principal of PSBB Senior Secondary School in Nungambakkam.
Kendriya Vidyalaya, IIT Madras also saw all students pass in Class X."The Class X results are good compared to last year," said R N Sendhil Kumar, Principal of KV, IIT Madras. Students from 1,460 schools spread across the state appeared for the Class X board exams this year."CBSE schools, even in rural areas, attract better teachers. It is one of the main reasons for the good results in Class X exams," said K Manoharan, former principal of SBOA School and Junior College in Anna Nagar.
