Chennai/Mumbai: The CBSE Results for class 12 for the Ajmer and Chennai Zones were announced on Thursday and the girls outshone the boys yet again.

While the pass percentage of girls was 92.68, it was 90.35 for the boys as against the overall pass percentage of 91.38.

Roshini Bano and K Vijay Kumar were joint toppers of the Board exams for the Ajmer and Chennai zones respectively and both hit the Bull’s Eye with 490 marks out of 500.

For both, the results come as a pleasant surprise.

Roshni may be a topper but success still comes at a price for her. She may not even be able to see herself on TV. "We are very strict at home. We don’t allow our kids even a TV," says Roshni’s mother.

Vijay makes getting the achievement sound like a cake walk. He says he “didn't do anything special” to surge ahead of his peers.

No tuitions, no restrictions on TV viewing or meeting friends, but what did help was a supportive school and family.

“I owe this to my parents and my school that encouraged me,” says Vijay.

But as news of the board results settled in, some students in Tamil Nadu started worrying.

For them, getting into an Engineering or Medical college will not be an easy task as the state government has abolished the Common Entrance Test. Admissions will made on the basis of marks and some feel this gives an edge to students from the state board, where its easier to score marks than under CBSE.

(With inputs from Sandhya Ravishankar and George Koshy)