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CBSE 10th Toppers 2025: Aarav has got 100 out 100 in English, French, Mathematics Standard, Science, and Artificial Intelligence.
The overall pass percentage of CBSE class 10 exams this year is 93.66 per cent (Representative/File)
15-year-old Aarav Malhotra from Delhi Public School (DPS), Greater Noida (West), has topped the CBSE Class 10 exams of 2025 with a perfect score of 500 out of 500. For his 10th exams, Aarav picked an unusual combination of subjects. He selected English, French, Mathematics Standard, Science, and Artificial Intelligence. He scored 100 out of 100 marks in all these subjects.
According to the CBSE board exams’ best-of-five rule, his top five subjects contributed to his 100 percent aggregate. In Social Science he scored 98 out of 100.
Aarav’s parents, Aarunshi and Kumud Malhotra, had provided him constant support and motivation throughout his class 10 board exams. However, it is not known what the youngster wishes to study in the future.
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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the Class 10 board exam results for 2025 on Tuesday, May 13. Students who appeared for the exams can check their mark sheets on the official CBSE websites — cbse.gov.in, cbse.nic.in, and results.cbse.nic.in. To view the results, students will need their admit card and registration details.
In 2025, a total of 23,85,079 students registered for the exam, out of which 23,71,939 appeared and 22,21,636 passed, resulting in an overall pass percentage of 93.66 per cent, which is a 0.06 per cent increase from 93.60 per cent in 2024.
When it comes to gender-wise performance, girls have once again outshone boys, achieving a pass percentage of 95 per cent, while boys recorded 92.63 per cent. This places girls 2.37 per cent ahead of boys in terms of success rate. Transgender candidates also performed impressively, with their pass percentage improving significantly from 91.30 per cent in 2024 to 95.00 per cent in 2025.
Despite the strong performance, 1,41,353 Class 10 students and 1,29,095 Class 12 students have been placed in the compartment category. To provide these students with a second chance, CBSE is set to conduct the Class 10 and 12 Supplementary Examinations 2025 by mid-July, as confirmed by Examination Controller Sanyam Bharadwaj to News18.
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