India, May 14 -- Jind district recorded the highest pass percentage, while Nuh district posted the poorest performance in the Class 12 results released by the Haryana Board of School Education (HBSE) on Tuesday. According to the board, 85.66% of regular students passed the exam, while only 63.21% of private candidates cleared it.

Announcing the results, HBSE chairman Dr Pawan Kumar and vice chairman Satish Kumar said that 166,031 of the 193,828 regular academic candidates passed, while 7,900 failed. Girls once again outshone boys with a pass percentage of 89.41%, compared to 81.86% among boys.

Among school types, government schools slightly outperformed private ones, registering an 86.98% pass rate against 84.67%. Urban schools had a ma...