CBSE Class 10 move proportion rises to 96.78% after second board examination; over one-fourth of scholars took enchancment check
The general move proportion within the Class 10 board examinations rose to 96.78% after the second board examination, with 308,095 college students out of 663,777 –59.95% –enhancing their efficiency, in line with outcomes introduced by the Central Board of Secondary Training (CBSE) on Saturday.
The second board examination was taken by 663,777 college students, accounting for 26.85% of the greater than 2.47 million college students who had appeared for the necessary primary Class 10 board examination held between February and March.
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The Class 10 primary board examination outcomes, declared on April 15, had recorded an total move proportion of 93.70%, marginally greater than 93.66% in 2025.
Based on CBSE, 664,027 college students registered for the second examination and 663,777 appeared. Of those, 513,955 college students took the examination for enchancment, and 308,095 (59.95%) succeeded in enhancing their efficiency over the primary examination.
149,822 college students appeared for compartment examination
One other 149,822 college students appeared below the compartment class, of whom 78,503 (52.40%) cleared the examination, an enchancment of three.72 proportion factors over the 48.68% compartment move proportion recorded in 2025.
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After incorporating the higher scores obtained within the second board examination held between Could 15 and 21, the general move proportion elevated by 3.08 proportion factors to 96.78%—a rise of three.12 proportion factors from final 12 months’s total move proportion of 93.66%.
“The second board examination supplied eligible college students of the primary board examination of 2026 with a further alternative to enhance their efficiency. Accordingly, for normal college students of 2026, the higher of the 2 performances is taken into account for getting ready the ultimate end result,” CBSE Controller of Examinations Sanyam Bhardwaj stated in a press release.
The 2026 Class 10 cohort is the primary to be assessed below CBSE’s two-board examination system, a key reform below the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP) 2020 geared toward lowering the “high-stakes” nature of board examinations by giving college students a further alternative to enhance their scores.
Underneath CBSE’s new two-board examination coverage, launched from 2026 consistent with the NEP 2020, solely college students who appeared in the primary board examination have been eligible to take the second examination to enhance their scores in as much as three topics—science, arithmetic, social science and languages. For normal college students, the board considers the higher of the 2 performances whereas getting ready the ultimate end result.
College students can entry their outcomes and digital tutorial paperwork by DigiLocker, whereas printed marksheets and passing certificates might be issued by their respective faculties.
