AGARTALA, May 24 (TIWN): The Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) will announce its much awaited results of Class 12 – on Monday. According to the sources, at 12.00 p.m. the Board will announce the result. This year total of 10, 80,368 candidates had appeared for the exam amongst which the number of males is 607383 and females- 432985.

The date sheet for Class XII Board Examination for the session 2014-15 has been declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) which was scheduled on March 2. Finally, the lakhs of students have been consistently waiting for CBSE Board Class 12 Results. The Board official making it confirm said that the results for all regions of Class 12 will be announced on May 25.

Last year the result was announced on May 28. Girls had outshone boys in the CBSE Class 12 examinations last year. Girls had recorded a pass percentage of 88.52 per cent, while boys had a pass percentage of 78.27 per cent.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (abbreviated as CBSE) is a Board of Education for public and private schools, under the Union Government of India BSE conducts the final examinations for Class 10 and Class 12 every year in the month of March. The results are to be announced by the end of May. 

The board earlier conducted the AIEEE Examination for admission to undergraduate courses in engineering and architecture in colleges across India. However the AIEEE exam was merged with the IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in 2013. The common examination is now called JEE(Main).

CBSE also conducts AIPMT (All India Pre Medical Test) for admission to major medical colleges in India. In 2014, the conduct of the National Eligibility Test for grant of junior research fellowship and eligibility for assistant professor in institutions of higher learning was outsourced to CBSE. Apart from these tests, CBSE also conducts the central teachers eligibility test and the Class X optional proficiency test. With the addition of NET in 2014, the CBSE has become the largest exam conducting body in the world.