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WBCHSE Result 2018 declared, Granthan Sengupta tops with 99.2%, check results here
West Bengal HS Result 2018 : The WBCHSE Class 12 result was announced by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) on Friday.
The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) announced the result for Uccha Madhyamik (West Bengal Council Higher Secondary or Class 12) examination on Friday.
This year, 83.75% students passed. Granthan Sengupta of Jalpaiguri District School, Arts stream, tops with 99.2%. In 18 districts of West Bengal, the pass percentage of girls is higher than that of boys. This year the West Bengal Board Class 12 result was declared within 58 days from the date of the last exam.
West Bengal HS Result 2018: Here is the direct link to check the results
The results will be available shortly on the official website of WBCHSE, wbresults.nic.in, according to WBCHSE president, Mauha Das. The results will also be available on private websites also, she said.
This year, the Uccha Madhyamik results were slightly delayed compared last year, when the results were declared in the last week of May, 2017.
Around 8.26 lakh students appeared for the Uccha Madhyamik this year. The exams started from March 27 and concluded on April 11. Last year, slightly more than 7.44 lakh students took the exam.
The pass percentage last year was 81.22% and the number of female examinees surpassed the number of male examinees. Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee credited her dream “Kanyashree” scheme for encouraging more girls students to stop dropping out of school and go for higher education.
