CBSE Results 2025: Girls Outperform Boys by 6% in 12th and 2% in 10th

New Delhi, May 15, 2025: Girls have outperformed boys in CBSE Class 12th and 10th by 6% and 2%, respectively. According to the CBSE Class 12th result data, a total of 7,66,830 girls appeared in the CBSE Class 12 exam, while 7,02,741 finally cleared it. This means that the passing percentage of girls is 91.64%. In comparison to the girls, 9,25,953 boys took the 12th exam, out of which 7,935,66 could finally make it. In other words, boys recorded a pass percentage of 85.7%. Therefore, the passing percentage margin of girls Vs boys stands at 5.94% (Almost 6%). 

Following the same trend, girls outclassed boys in Class 10th in CBSE 2025 exams. The data by CBSE reflects that in Class 10, a total of 10,34,981 girls appeared in the exam, while 9,83,215 passed it. While it comes to boys, 13,36,958 took the exam and 12,38,421 finally passed it. This means that girls posted a passing percentage of 95, while the boys had to satisfy with a pass percentage of 92.63% only. Here too the girls dominated with their performance by a margin of over 2%. 

Consistent Trends Over the Last 3 Years 

Analysing the CBSE result data for the last 10 years, girls have posted a consistent passing percentage lead over the boys in Class 12 exams. According to the official data in the table below, the passing percentage margin of girls over boys has been around 6% only. In 2023, the girls pass percentage was 90.68% Vs 84.67% (Boys). In 2024, it stood at 91.52 for girls and 85.12 for boys. Furthermore, this year, the girls’ passing percentage stands at 91.64 Vs 85.7 (Boys). This means the difference stands at 6.01%, 6.4% and 5.94 percent in 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively. Apart from the last 3 years, only 2020 recorded a performance difference of almost 6 years by the girls over boys. 

In the rest of the years, girls’ performance in Class 12 CBSE exams has been a little inconsistent with the difference ranging from 0.54% to 5.4% over the boys.   

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Girls Dominated Class 12 Performance By 10% (2018-19)

Surprisingly the years 2016, 2018 and 2019 saw a wide gap in terms of performance by the girls and boys in Class 12th exams. While the passing percentage of girls was not exceptional (88.58, 88.31 and 88.7 in 2016, 2018 and 2019 respectively), still it posted a difference of close to 10%. 

In 2016, the girls outperformed boys by 9.73%, while in 2018, girls dominated the performance by 9.32% as compared to boys. In 2019, the female dominance continued with a difference of 9.3% better result than boys.   

Performance Trends in 10 Year (Girls Vs Boys – Class 12)  

Year	Pass Percentage (Girls)	Pass Percentage (Boys)	Pass Percentage Difference
2025	91.64	85.7	5.94
2024	91.52	85.12	6.4
2023	90.68	84.67	6.01
2022	94.54	91.25	3.29
2021	99.67	99.13	0.54
2020	92.15	86.19	5.96
2019	88.7	79.4	9.3
2018	88.31	78.99	9.32
2017	67.1	61.7	5.4
2016	88.58	78.85	9.73

This chart below illustrates gender-wise performance of girls and boys over the past decade.

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Gender-wise Performance Trends in CBSE Class 12 (2016-2025)

Girls Maintain Dominance in Class 10th Result in 2026, 2018, 2020

The official result data of CBSE Class 10 for over a decade reflects that girls have dominated boys in this class too. However, the performance margin has been the maximum in 2016, 2018 and 2020. In 2016, 88.60% girls passed the Class 10 exam, while the passing percentage of boys stood at 78.90%. This translates into a pass percentage difference of 9.7%. Further, in 2018, a total of 88.67% girls cleared the Class 10 exam as compared to 85.32% boys. The year 2020 saw girls performing with a pass percentage of 93.31 compared to their peer boys with a success rate of 90.14%. This means a performance difference of 9.7%, 3.35% and 3.17% in 2016, 2018 and 2020, respectively.  

Furthermore, the years 2019 and 2025 have posted almost similar results with girls dominating the results by 2.31% and 2.37% respectively. The rest of the years, the performance difference has been inconsistent ranging from 0.35% to 2.04%. However, the highlight of the data is the year 2017 where boys dominated with their performance, tough marginally, by .9%.  

Performance Trends in 10 Year (Girls Vs Boys – Class 10)  

Year	Girls Pass Percentage	Boys Pass Percentage	Difference in Pass Percentage
2025	95	92.63	2.37
2024	94.75	92.71	2.04
2023	94.25	92.27	1.98
2022	95.21	93.8	1.41
2021	99.24	98.89	0.35
2020	93.31	90.14	3.17
2019	92.45	90.14	2.31
2018	88.67	85.32	3.35
2017	92.5	93.4	-0.9
2016	88.6	78.9	9.7

Here is a chart depicting how girls have overshadowed boys in pass percentage over 10 years.

Gender-wise Performance Trends in CBSE Class 10 (2016-2025)

Gender-wise Pass Percentage Difference (2016-2025)

This year, as many as 16,92,794 students had taken the exam, while 14,96,307 had cleared it successfully in Class 12, while the Class 10 exam saw 23,71,939 students appear in the exam, and 22,21,636 pass the exam.