Guwahati: The CBSE Class 12 results brought cheers for the northeast, with five of the eight states in the Guwahati region — Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim and Mizoram — recording pass percentages above the national average of 85.20%. Mizoram topped the region with an impressive 94.94% pass rate.
Although the national pass percentage dropped by about three percentage points from last year, three northeastern states improved their performance, whereas pass percentage declined in five. Going with the all-India trend, girls outperformed boys in all northeastern states except Mizoram.
State-wise Performance
Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura recorded improvement in pass percentage from last year, whereas Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Manipur recorded a decline.
- Mizoram: Overall pass percentage of 94.94%, with boys at 95.19% and girls at 94.69%.
- Meghalaya: 91.9% overall, with girls at 93.22% and boys at 90.54%.
- Sikkim: 91.25% overall, with girls at 92.07% and boys at 90.16%.
- Nagaland: 86.55% overall, with girls at 91.44% and boys at 82.26%.
- Assam: 85.66% overall, with girls at 88.16% and boys at 83.45%.
- Manipur: 82.40% overall, with girls at 83.17% and boys at 81.66%. Despite being conflict-hit, CBSE schools performed better than some other states, but the overall pass percentage fell by a little over four points from last year.
- Tripura: 79.19% overall, with girls at 80.62% and boys at 77.85%.
- Arunachal Pradesh: 78.59% overall, with girls at 80.47% and boys at 76.52%, the lowest in the region.
Student Appearances and School Categories
The highest number of students appeared from Assam at 18,237, followed by Arunachal Pradesh with 12,898, Tripura with 10,167, Manipur with 6,170, Sikkim with 5,944, Meghalaya with 1,691, Nagaland with 1,427 and Mizoram with 415.
Kendriya Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, both run by the central government, recorded pass percentages above 95% in most northeastern states and emerged as the best-performing school categories.
