About 7.5 lakh students will take the Class 12 board exams this year, evaluate to 6.84 last year and 6.81 lakh in 2010.

In the Chennai zone 69,825 students, including regular and private candidates, are set to take the senior school board examination this year. This is a significant improvement from 61,753 last year and 56,697 in 2010.

The Chennai location consists of CBSE schools in Tamil Nadu , Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Countries, and Daman and Diu.

"93 % of learners in our school have decided for school-based evaluation this season. The Tamil Nadu authorities was the first to concern recommendations to universities associated to other panels of training on recognizing kids from CBSE universities in greater additional sessions . So ,students had no issues in getting entrance in greater additional sessions elsewhere," said mature major of Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram J Ajeeth Prasath Jain.

Principals of CBSE schools in Chennai said that many of their Class 10 students had opted for school-based assessment than the board exam this year. "Now there is much more awareness among students about the fact that there is not much difference between opting for the school exam and the board exam in Class 10," said director of Paavai Vidyashram CSatish.

School heads said that last year's experience had given Class 10 students the confidence tooptfor school-based assessmentin 2012.

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Sources said this was because students in other states like Maharashtra , which is also part of Chennai zone , continued to prefer board exams, while students in Tamil Nadu preferred school based assessments. CBSE gave Class 10 students the option of choosing between school-based assessment and board exams last year in an attemptto reduce exam-related stress in students.

However, the number of Class 10 students in schools in the Chennai zone opting for board examsthis year is96,959 compared to the 55,366 students who have opted for the school-based exam.