CBSE Result 2025: Board says competency-based questions ‘yielded results’ as pass rate improves
Anu Parthiban | May 13, 2025 | 02:55 PM IST | 2 mins read
CBSE Class 10, 12 Result 2025: 50% competency-focused questions include MCQs, case-study based questions, source-based integrated questions among others.
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Download EBookCBSE Result 2025: In a major shift, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) introduced 50% competency-based questions in Class 12 board exams 2025. These efforts have paid off, the board said in an official statement with the CBSE Class 12 pass percentage and CBSE Class 10 pass rate rising to 88.39% and 93.66% respectively. CBSE Class 12th Result 2025 (OUT) LIVE
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The CBSE Board introduced the competency-based questions only for Class 12 students, however, Class 10 students claimed after the final exams that the question paper had competency-based questions. The board said that the change in pattern was brought about to help students prepare better for the exam.
To help navigate through the shift in exam pattern, the CBSE board said it uploaded sample question papers for all subjects and model practice questions well in advance on the official website, cbse.gov.in. Additionally, teachers were provided with training, and the CBSE Class 10, 12 date sheet was issued three months before the exam.
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“All efforts have yielded results in the form of improving the results. This year, the pass percentage of students in class XIl is 88.39%, which is better than the pass students were of last year i.e. 87.98% of the 2024 examination. This shows that students were well prepared for competency-based question papers,” it said while announcing the CBSE results 2025 .
Fifty percent competency-focused questions include multiple-choice questions (MCQs), case-study based questions, source-based integrated questions among others. The remaining 20% was select response type questions and 30% consisted of short, long-answer type questions.
CBSE Board Result 2025: Highlights
Students can check the highlights of CBSE Class 10, 12 results 2025 here.
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CBSE Board Result 2025 |
Particulars |
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Number of schools |
CBSE Class 10 - 26,676 CBSE Class 12 - 19,300 |
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Number of regular students |
Class 10 - 24,11,538, Class 12 - 17,87,079 Total students - 41,98,617 |
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CBSE Class 10, 12 pass percentage |
CBSE Class 10 pass percentage - 88.39% CBSE Class 12 pass percentage - 93.66% |
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CBSE official websites |
cbse.gov.in cbse.nic.in cbseresults.nic.in |
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Number of subjects offered |
Class 10- 83, Class 12 -120 |
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Total number of subjects |
203 |
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Question papers/ sets prepared in 203 subjects |
4500+ |
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Answer sheets evaluated |
Class 10 - 1,40,49,901 Class 12- 94,66,638 Total - 2,35,16,539 |
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