For the past ten years, the statistics reveal a consistent trend: girls have consistently outshined boys in the CBSE Class 12 examination results. While the disparity between the genders has decreased by 39% since 2015, girls have maintained their lead every year, with no signs of reversal.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is expected to announce the Class 12 results for 2026 in the third week of May. Analyzing the results from the past decade indicates that girls have consistently outperformed their male counterparts. Although the gap has narrowed over the years, it has never fully closed.
In 2015, the performance gap was 9.79 percentage points, with boys lagging behind girls. By 2025, this gap had reduced to approximately 6 points, signifying progress, yet full equality has not been reached.
The statistics clearly illustrate the trend: in 2015, the pass percentage for girls was 87.56%, while boys achieved 77.77%. Over the following decade, boys improved their pass rate by more than 10 percentage points, nearly twice the rate of improvement seen among girls. Nevertheless, girls also advanced, raising their pass percentage to 91.64% by 2025. Although the gap has narrowed, it remains intact.
Over the last ten years, the gender gap in CBSE Class 12 results has been steadily decreasing, but it has not vanished entirely. In 2015, girls had a 9.79 percentage point advantage over boys, which was reduced to 5.94 points by 2025—a 39% decrease in the gap over the decade. During this period, boys enhanced their pass rate by over 10%, almost double the improvement rate of girls.
Despite these advancements, girls have consistently secured higher results each year. The most significant reduction in the gap occurred between 2019 and 2020, with the difference diminishing from 9.30 points to 5.96 points in just one year, largely attributed to an overall increase in pass rates during the pandemic. Since 2023, after the return to standard examination schedules, the gap has stabilized around the 6-point mark.
