TN Class 12 board exam records 94.56 pass percentage, girls outperform boys

Erode topped among the districts scoring 94.56 percent while Chennai registered about 94 percent.

ByPTI

Published May 06, 2024 | 1:46 PMUpdatedMay 06, 2024 | 1:46 PM

Exam results

Tamil Nadu on Monday, 6 May, reported an overall pass percentage of 94.56 in the Class XII board examinations 2024, which is slightly higher than the previous year’s 94.03 percent.

As per the 12th standard examination results which were announced at the Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI) campus in Chennai, a total of 7,19,196 students out of the 7,60,606 who appeared in the board exam in March this year have passed.

Girls outnumbered boys registering 96.44 percent pass percentage (3,93,890 candidates) while it was 92.37 percent for boys (3,25,305 cleared the exams) and third gender: 1 (100 percent).

A total of 2,478 schools (out of 7,532 schools from which students wrote the exams) have achieved 100 percent results— all the candidates who appeared for the examinations have cleared the papers. Of these, 397 were government schools.

As many as 2,587 students scored centum in Mathematics, 633 students in Physics and 471 in Chemistry.

Students need to score 35 marks in each subject out of a total of 100 in order to pass the exam.

Erode topped among the districts scoring 94.56 percent while Chennai registered about 94 percent.

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