The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared the Class 10 board results for 2026, with a pass rate of 93.70%.
This year, 24.72 lakh students appeared for the examination out of 24.83 lakh registered candidates, a participation rate of 99.53%.
Girls continued to outperform boys, with a pass percentage of 94.99% compared to 92.69% for boys.
The top-performing regions were Trivandrum and Vijayawada with a 99.79% pass rate, followed by Chennai and Bengaluru.
The number of high scorers included 2.22 lakh students scoring above 90%, and 0.55 lakh students crossing 95% marks.
CBSE institutions, Kendriya Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, continued to lead performance, outperforming independent schools and government schools.
The board will not award first, second or third divisions to its students, but will issue merit certificates to the top 0.1% of students.
The Class 10 students who appeared in the 2026 board examinations are among the first batch to be assessed under CBSE's new two-board-exam system.
