Tamil Nadu (a state in southern India) has recorded a 95.2% pass rate in its Class 12 state board examinations, a slight improvement on last year's 95.03%, according to results released on 8 May 2026. Nearly 792,000 students sat the exams across 3,412 centres, with girls outperforming boys — 97% of female candidates passed compared to 93.19% of males — and private schools posting higher results than government institutions. The figures highlight the continued strong performance of Tamil Nadu's school education system, one of the larger state-level examination cohorts in India.