No toppers list this year? Highest marks obtained in CBSE Class 12 board exam

The CBSE Class 12 board exams 2025 will be conducted from February 15 to April 4. Students can check CBSE Class 12 toppers name and marks here.

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The CBSE Board stopped announcing toppers to avoid unhealthy competition among students. (Representational image: Wikimedia Commons)

Anu Parthiban | February 6, 2025 | 08:20 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will commence the CBSE Class 12 board exam 2025 from February 15. The board has not been announcing the CBSE Class 10, 12 toppers names for the last two years to avoid ‘unhealthy competition’ among students. However, the overall pass percentage and region-wise pass rate are published on the official website, cbse.gov.in.

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The CBSE Class 12 practical exams 2025 are underway. Students will be appearing for the CBSE Class 12 board exams 2025 from February 15 to April 4. There will be no open book exams and the CBSE syllabus has not been reduced for the annual theory exams 2025-26, the board had clarified.

The CBSE Class 12 board exam will be for a total of 100 marks distributed among theory, practical, project, and internal assessment in varying ratios. For main subjects, the theory paper is conducted for 80 marks and practicals are held for 30 marks. The Class 12 board exam paper will have more competency-based questions and the number of constructed response questions will be reduced by 10%.

This year, the board issued the CBSE date sheet 2025 nearly 86 days before the exam to given students enough time for preparation. “The date sheet has been prepared by avoiding more than 40,000 subject combinations to ensure that no two subjects' examinations offered by a student fall on the same date. The time of the start of the examinations will be at 10.30 AM (IST),” the CBSE circular read.

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Highest marks in CBSE Class 12 board exam

As per the last year’s CBSE 12th results , a total of 24,068 students obtained 95% and above in all subjects; which is higher compared to 22,622 in 2023. More than 1.16 lakh students scored above 90% last year.

6,126 students scored a perfect 100 in painting, 3,990 obtained 99 percent in English core, and 2,152 secured 100 percent in chemistry, as per the top 0.1% in CBSE Class 12th results 2024.

Since the board has stopped announcing the names of CBSE Class 12 toppers, here’s the details of marks obtained by previous years’ rank holders.

CBSE Class 12 toppers 2022



Rank

CBSE Class 12 toppers name

CBSE Class 12 toppers mark

1

Yuvakshi Vig

500/500

2

Mrigank Pawagi

499/500

CBSE Class 12 toppers 2019



1

Hansika Shukla

499

1

Karishma Arora

499

2

Gaurangi Chawla

498

2

Aishwarya

498

2

Bhavya

498

CBSE Class 12 topper 2018



1

Meghna Shrivastava

499

2

Anoushka Chandra

498

3

Chahat Bodhraj

497

3

Astha Bamba

497

3

Tanuja Kapri

497

3

Supriya Kaushik

497

3

Nakul Gupta

497

3

Kshitij Anand

497

3

Ananya Singh

497

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