Noida girl Raksha Gopal +

who scored 99.4 per cent and 99.2 per cent +

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Sunday announced the results of Class XII examination withscoring a whopping 99.6 per cent to bag the first rank.The second and third positions were bagged by Chandigarh students Bhumi Sawant and Aditya Jainrespectively.Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar spoke to the toppers and congratulated them for their performance.The all India pass percentage has gone down from 83.05 per cent to 82 per cent this year, a senior CBSE official said.The board has also started a helpline with toll free number 18000118004 for psychological counselling post class XII board results."65 counsellors will talk to students and parents on the helpline number between 8 am to 10 pm," the official said.Students can check their results on the official website of the board, cbseresults.nic.in.The CBSE is hosting its result on the internet and with technical support of National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of India.The Board announced the results of all its 10 regions simultaneously. Delhi regions has the highest number of candidates (2,58,321), followed by Panchkula with 1,84,557 and Ajmer with 1,31,449 candidates. A total of 2,497 candidates under disabilities also registered for the exam this year.Aiming to check high cut-offs in colleges, the CBSE had scrapped the moderation policy under which grace marks are given to the students in exams for difficult questions.In a reply to plea filed by parents and some students, the Delhi High Court earlier instructed the board to follow its 'moderation policy'.Under the moderation policy, students are awarded up to 15 percent extra marks in certain papers if the questions are deemed to be difficult.The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) was established in the year 1929, with its head office located in Delhi. It is one of the oldest and largest Board of Secondary Education in India. It has More then 16,000 affiliated schools in India and across 24 other countries of the world. CBSE affiliates all Kendriya Vidyalayas, all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, private schools and most of the schools approved by central government of India. The board conducts final examinations every spring for All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) for Class 10 and 12.