CBSE Senior Secondary School Results Declared: Govt Schools of Chandigarh Surpass National CBSE Pass Percentage
The Voice of Chandigarh
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results of Senior Secondary and Secondary classes. The overall pass percentage of Government Senior Secondary Schools of U.T. Chandigarh stands at 87.25%, as compared to 88.79% last year, reflecting a marginal decline of 1.54 percentage points.
The overall CBSE pass percentage at the national level stands at 85.2%, which is lower by 3.19 percentage points as compared to last year’s 88.39%. The pass percentage of Government Schools of U.T. Chandigarh is therefore higher than the overall CBSE pass percentage by 2.05 percentage points.
Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Punjab and Administrator, U.T. Chandigarh, congratulated the students, teachers and parents on the commendable performance and conveyed his best wishes for the future endeavours of the students.
The decline in the overall pass percentage at both the national and UT level may be attributed to stricter and competency-based evaluation practices, greater emphasis on conceptual understanding under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and the introduction of digital evaluation of answer sheets through On-Screen Marking (OSM). The trend reflects a gradual shift from rote learning towards application-based assessment.
The details of the Senior Secondary results are as under:
A total of 10,255 students appeared in the Senior Secondary Examination, out of which 8,948 students passed.
The overall pass percentage for the current session is 87.25%, compared to 88.79% in the academic year 2024-25.
This year, two schools recorded pass percentages of 95% and above — GMSSS Sector 32 and GSSS Mani Majra Town. Further, 16 schools achieved pass percentages of 90% and above.
Students delivered an impressive qualitative performance. A total of 348 students secured 90% and above marks, as compared to 225 students last year.
Notably, 57 students secured 95% and above marks, compared to 29 students in the previous academic session, registering an increase of 28 students.
Girls of Government Senior Secondary Schools continued to outperform boys. Out of 4,933 boys, 4,169 passed, whereas 4,819 out of 5,322 girls cleared the examination.
Among boys, the overall CBSE pass percentage stood at 82.13%, whereas the pass percentage of Government Schools of U.T. Chandigarh was higher at 84.51%. Similarly, among girls, the overall CBSE pass percentage was 88.86%, while Government Schools of U.T. Chandigarh recorded a higher pass percentage of 90.55%, thereby reflecting the continued outstanding performance of girl students in Government schools.
It is noteworthy that the overall topper, Anoop Saini of GMSSS Sector 35, secured 99.4% marks and had also studied in the same Government school in Class X.
Vanshika Jain, a student of PM SHRI GGMSSS Sector 18, secured 96% marks despite being a special child with hearing disability and Type-I Diabetes.
The stream-wise pass percentage for the academic session 2025-26 is as follows: Medical stream recorded a pass percentage of 82.88% as compared to 93.25% in 2024-25; Non-Medical stream achieved 79.06% against 87.71% last year; Commerce stream recorded 88.92% as compared to 92.05% in the previous session; Humanities stream registered an improvement with 87.94% pass percentage against 86.50% last year; while Skill Courses recorded the highest pass percentage of 97.17%, improving from 94.68% in 2024-25.
