CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu students have registered a 94.56 pass percentage in the class 12 examinations released on Monday. While a total of 7,60,606 students wrote the examination, 7,19,196 students passed. Last year's pass percentage was 94.03%.
Tiruppur district registered the highest pass percentage with 97.45 closely followed by Erode and Sivaganga, both registering 97.42%.
Girls (96.44%) registered more pass percentage than boys (92.37%).
A total of 91.02% students from the government schools passed the examinations. This number was 95.49% for government aided schools, 98.70% for private schools. A total of 26,352 students score centum in at least one of the subjects with the highest in computer science (6996).
A total of 7,72,200 students had registered for the board examinations while there were around 12,000 absentees.