New Delhi: The CBSE class X results for the Western and Southern regions were declared on Monday morning. Bangalore girl Aparna Murlidhar emerged the topper by securing 99 per cent, scoring a ton in three subjects.

Her aggregate was 495 marks out of 500. Class X results for the rest of the country including Delhi will be declared on Tuesday. Students can access their results on CBSE's website: www.results.nic.in.

Over seven lakh students had appeared for the exams conducted in March this year. The CBSE results for the Class XII exams were declared earlier last week.

City student Vinay Krishnan who scored 96.2 per cent in the exams sounded elated. “I am glad and now want to pursue aeronautical engineering. So I will choose my subjects in Class XI accordingly,” he said.

The pass percentage in Bangalore for Class XII was 98.27 with 2,096 students passing out of the 2,133 who appeared for the examination - an improvement of 1.54 per cent from last year.

Fifteen out of 34 schools in the region got 100 per cent results and 17 other schools got results above 90 per cent.

Chennai student Divya who scored 98.4 per cent thanked her parents and teachers. “I am really elated. This has been possible because of my parents’ support and teachers’ help. They conducted regular revision tests and made it easy for us. I now want to chase my IIT dream and have taken up science subjects with Computer Science,” she said.