Announcing the results here in the morning, WBCHSE Chairman Chiranji Bhattacharya said that while the passing percentage of boys is 92.32, in case of girls it is 88.18.

East Midnapore district recorded the maximum pass percentage of 95.77 per cent, “The top 10 rankers include a total of 58 examinees, of which 3 are boys and 23 are girls. The maximum number of 13 candidates in the top 1 rankers are from Hooghly district,” said the WBCHSE president.

According to Bhattacharya, this year 1,87,924 students from the minority community appeared for the Class 12 examinations and their passing percentage was 86.90.

This year's topper is Avik Das of McWilliam Higher Secondary School in Alipurdua district in the northern region of West Bengal. He stood fourth in the Class 1 board exams, which he had passed two years ago.

“I expected to be in the top 10. But I never thought about occupying the first place. My goal is to study astrophysics and become a scientist in the future,” said H.

Although the results were declared on Wednesday, successful students will not be able to get the mark sheets. The council will distribute the marksheets to the concerned school authorities on Thursday, after which the authorities will hand them over to their students.