Tamil Nadu registered a 98.48% pass rate among students who appeared for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 board exams. This marks a marginal decrease from last year’s pass rate of 98.74% in the State. The CBSE Class 12 results were announced on Tuesday (May 13, 2025), with the national pass percentage recorded at 88.39%.

In the CBSE Class 10 exams, results of which were also declared on Tuesday, the State registered a 99.86% pass rate, a marginal increase from the previous year’s 99.84%.

Girls outperform boys

As many as 42,904 boys and 37,314 girls from Tamil Nadu wrote the Class 12 exams, wherein girls outperformed boys (98.03%) with a pass rate of 98.99%. The Chennai region stood third in the country, after the Trivandrum and Vijayawada regions, with 97.39% pass rate, which is a marginal decrease from last year’s 98.47%. Besides Tamil Nadu, the Chennai region includes Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The CBSE Class 12 exams began on February 15 and concluded on April 4. As many as 1,041 schools in the State took part in the exams, and students appeared for the same in 344 centres across Tamil Nadu.

Class 10 results

As for the Class 10 CBSE exam results, the Chennai region dropped to the fourth place in the country with 98.71% pass rate, down from the previous year’s 99.3%. The national pass percentage stood at 93.6%. The Class 10 exams began on February 15 and concluded on March 13. 

In Tamil Nadu, 56,008 boys and 47,251 girls wrote the Class 10 exams. Girls outperformed boys in this year’s examination, with a pass percentage of 99.9, while boys stood at 99.8% pass rate. Most schools in Chennai city registered 100 pass rate.

Students can access their results through any of the four CBSE websites: www.cbse.gov.in; www.results.nic.in; www.results.digilocker.gov.in; or www.umang.gov.in. Students can access their result documents through the Digilocker app.