Chandigarh, May 14 -- Chandigarh put up a similar show in Class 10 CBSE results, where despite improving its overall pass percentage from 86.8% last year to 88.5% this year, it again ranked lower than other states and UTs in this region, with the exception of Ladakh. The city's neighbours were far ahead in performance, with Jammu and Kashmir scoring 98.19%, Himachal Pradesh 97.26%, Punjab 94.49% and Haryana 92.32%. Only Ladakh, with a pass percentage of 74.73%, performed worse than Chandigarh in this region. As per the data released by CBSE, in Chandigarh, girls once again outmatched boys with a pass percentage of 89.47% compared to the latter's 87.59%. Region-wise, Chandigarh region, which comprises Chandigarh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, achieved an overall pass percentage of 93.71%, figuring ninth in the country among 17 CBSE regions. Panchkula region, covering Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, ranked 10 with a pass percentage of 92.77%. Trivandrum region (99.79%) was the top performer in the country. Education department officials cited similar reasons - no local education board -for the performance as observed in Class 12. A total of 19,511 students from 167 schools had registered for the Class 10 exams from Chandigarh. Among them 19,434 students sat for the exams at 46 centres and 17,668 cleared them. In the country, a total of 24.11 lakh students appeared for the exams that were conducted between February 15 and March 18....