evidence: For the first time in at least 20 years, over 90% of government school students who appeared in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) Class 12 examinations passed the exam, marking the highest pass percentage for Delhi’s government schools in two decades. They also outperformed private schools for the second year in a row, giving the Delhi government added reason to rejoice. Delhi education minister Manish Sisodia congratulated students on Twitter. "Congratulations to all students, teachers and parents for making us pride [sic] in CBSE Class XII results. Delhi government school’s result is 90.64% [sic] which is 2.37% (points) higher than last year’s 88.27%," he tweeted. [...] This is the second year in a row that Delhi’s government schools have performed better than private schools. As per the Directorate of Education (DoE) and CBSE data, this year the government schools achieved their highest pass percentage in the last 20 years. In 1998, only 63.45% of students from government schools passed the exams, according to the DoE data, and this has steadily climbed over the years. It crossed 70 for the first time in 2000, when the pass percentage was 72.54%, and crossed 80 for the first time in 2007 when 82.73% of the government school kids who had appeared for the exam passed.