By IANS
New Delhi : The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Friday declared its class 12 final examinations results, paving the way for tens of thousands of students to take admission in scores of graduate courses.
This year 502,688 students from 4,789 schools took the class 12 examinations in India and abroad, an increase of 9.59 percent over last year. The exams were conducted at 2,276 centres, of which 33 were overseas.
As soon as the result was declared at 8 a.m., tense students and anxious parents were seen checking results at Internet cafes and through dedicated SMS services provided by state owned Mahangar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) and five other private mobile service providers.
Students were accessing their results from websites like www.cbseresults.nic.in, www.cbse.nic.in, www.results.nic.in and http://mtnldelhi.in, across the country.
The board has made arrangements to disseminate the results through the Internet, mobile phones, landline and an interactive voice response system.
Mobile service providers also delivered the results to individual candidates through SMS: MTNL (2001), Hutch (12310), Airtel (64601), Idea (456), Reliance (1234) and Tata Indicom (8282).