According to CBSE sources, results for class X may be out in the beginning of the next week. Students can register on www.cbse.nic.in to get their result through e-mail or check the result on this website after 8 am on the result day.

Results can also be accessed on

• www.cbseresults.nic.in,
  
• www.results.nic .in,
  
• http/mtnldelhi.in ,
  
• httpbol.net.in,
  
• http/delhi.mtnl.in.

Once the class XII results are out, students seeking a seat in Delhi University can start filling and submitting the admission forms from June 2. The forms can be submitted till June 15. The aggregate in class XII will decide the future of DU aspirants when the first cut-off list is out on June 26.

Meanwhile, students suffering from anxiety while waiting for their Board results now have help at hand in the form of helplines:

That's when the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and the Indian School Certificate (ISC) results will be declared.

Unnati of Shri Ram School in Gurgaon can hardly take her eyes off the ICSE website. It's the biggest exam result of her life and the Class X post-exam relief is long over.

''I am really tense since morning, when I saw on the website that results will be declared on Tuesday. My Mathematics and Chemistry papers were really good and I am expecting around 85 per cent,'' said Unnattee Eusibius, Class X student, Shri Ram School.

Reviewing and revisiting each exam, what will definitely raise scores, answers that students wish they could correct now, that's what the next few hours will be about.

Class XII results will decide career goals and direction. For Unnati and her friends, it is what others will think and say.

''We have got provisional admission in our own school, so we are worried about the expectations our parents have from us,'' said Sejal Widge, Class X student, Shri Ram School.

''But we also have lot of peer pressure. Which friend scores how much, really matters a lot. So we are a bit worried about that,'' said Rifka Verma, Class X student, Shri Ram School.

But their parents have also urged them to remember this is not the end of the world. And that's what they wish to convey to others like them.

A qualified doctor, Karthik, appeared for the examination in 2004 and secured a rank of 166. He felt he could do better and took the same exam again in 2006, coming 144th. Still not satisfied, he took the exams again last year, and emerged right on top.

Seventh rank holder Ashima is a well-recognised name in the DSE campus. DSE Economics head S.C. Panda has no trouble recollecting Jain's achievements as a student even though she passed out in 2005.

"She was one of our brightest students and the topper in her batch. I would have expected her to top the examinations," Panda told the Hindustan Times.

Seven women are among the top 20 in the list of successful candidates, who include 286 from the general category. Doing Delhi proud is another woman, Smita Sarangi, who ranked 17th.

Two JNU students, Mahesh Kumar and Aditya Goenka also came out with flying colours. Mohammad Pervez Alam (21) a student of Jamia Milia Islamia, cleared the exam on his first attempt. "I am not surprised he excelled in thesaid civil services," Mohammad Asif Umar, coordinator of the Center for Coaching and Career Planning Guidance, Jamia.

OBCs account for 266 candidates while 128 belong to Scheduled Castes and 54 to Scheduled Tribes.

While stating this, an official spokesman said the results would be displayed in the respective schools at 3 p.m. on the same day. Besides, these would also be made available in various newspapers.

He said the candidates could also log on to the board's website <http://hbse.nic.in> and other websites--www.indiaresults.com, www.rediff.com, www. sify.com and www.dialnetindia.com -- for the results.

He said the results could also be obtained by calling BSNL-12555, Airtel-56666, 543212, Vodafone-56789, Idea-55456, 53030, Tata-12900 from mobile phones.

To avail themselves of the SMS facility the candidates could type 8th HB08 for the middle results and 10th HB10 for the secondary results and send messages on mobile numbers 5676750, 52424, 57333 and 54545.

On Tuesday, as the Common Admission Test score flashed on his cellphone, Bhattacharya allowed himself a smile that said it all. What makes Bhattacharya's feat even more creditable is the fact that the student of metallurgical engineering and material science at the IITBombay has achieved it without taking any coaching.

Chandigarh-based Vineet Saini, a chemical engineer working in an IT company, has also got 100 percentile. He had completed his BE from Department of Chemical Engineering, Panjab University, in 2006. Approximately 50 students from Chandigarh have reported the percentile of 98.5-plus. A few Mumbaikars also scored above 99 percentile.

"I did not even study specifically for CAT," 21-yearold Bhattacharya, who scored 99.9 percentile in Maths and Data Interpretation and 98.9 in the Verbal Ability section, said. So was it sheer luck? "I took the MBA mock tests and those helped me a
lot," he said. Bhattacharya recently took his GRE, too, and scored an impressive 1,590 out of 1,600.

Bhattacharya does not feel that management studies are only for engineers. "A management degree lets a company offer a wide range of job profiles to the candidate," he said.

Aspirants can access their results on the internet or via SMS. To get the results on your mobile, SMS 57333 and type `CAT'-- space-- `registration number'-- space-- `date of birth' or `CAT'-- space-- `registration number'-- space-- `application number'. Results can also be accessed by telephone through the Interactive Voice Response System.

Details of the date and venue for group discussions and interviews will be made available by post as well as on the individual IIM websites only after a few days.

The evaluation this year will be on 74 questions and not 75 as there was an error in one of the questions. Students complained that the correct answer for question number 33 of the data interpretation (DI) section in set number 222 was missing in all five options given in the multiple choice type answers.

However, the decision to cancel the question is comes too late for several candidates who wasted valuable time mulling over the ``wrong'' question when they could have been working on other questions and are likely to lose out on percentile scores as a result. Even a difference of one mark can put a student far behind his peers and may cost him or her a seat in a premiere institution.

Unlike last year, the quantum or maths section was tougher and came with a surprise element. Deviating from the usual format, the passages in the English section had three questions this year.

The results of candidates (with roll numbers against the names) in order of merit are: General category --- Sumit Garg 5984, Prashant Sharma 5855, Amarinder Sharma 5525, Akshdeep Mahajan 5517, Gagandeep Mittal 5627, Hemraj Mittal 5666, Harleen Kaur 5655, Navjeet Budhiraja 5798, Harish Goyal 5650,Surender Kumar 6000, Taranjit Kaur 6016, Rahul Bishnoi 5864, Amit Sharma 5537, Lokesh Gupta 5725, Jitendra Singh 5691, Yogesh Choudhary 6054, Monika Saroha 5771, Hemant Yadav 5665, Chetna Singh 5603, Sunil Jindal 5988, Rohit Watts 5918, Nishant 5820, Amit Saharawat 5536, Man Pal 5734, Nandita Kaushik 5781, Natasha Sharma 5795, Abhishek Phutela 5508 and Narender Singh 5788.

The candidates in the SC category are: Jyoti Birbian 5699, Ashok Kumar 5569, Sunil Kumar 5990 and Madhulika 5730.

The candidates in the BC category are: Sunil Kumar 5994, Shikha 5962, Lovleen 5728, Mukesh Rao 5776, Tayyab Hussain 6018 and Satish Kumar 5945.  

The examinations are: M Tech (Instrument), fourth semester, April 2007; MA-II (Punjabi Honours), April 2007; B Sc (Nursing), sixth semester (reappear), May 2007; B Sc-II (Zoology) (Honours School) (reappear), July 2007; M Sc-I (Honours School), first semester (reappear), September 2007; B Sc-III (Zoology) (Honours School) (reappear), July 2007; B Sc-I (Zoology) (Honours School) (reappear), July 2007; B Arch, eighth semester, May/June 2007; M Sc (Chemistry) (Honours School), first semester, July 2007; M Sc (Chemistry) (Honours School), second semester, July 2007; M Sc (Chemistry) (Honours School), third semester, July 2007; M Sc (Chemistry) (Honours School), fourth semester, July 2007; BE (Chemical), fourth semester (special examination), February 2007; M Sc (Industrial Chemistry), second semester, May 2007; BE (Electronics & Communication), second semester (special examination), January 2007; B Sc-I (Fashion Designing), April 2007; M Com -I, April 2007; M Com-II, April 2007.

Results of M Phil/PhD entrance test-2007 conducted by the university on September 2 have also been declared.

Enquiries can be made on all the working days from the enquiry office personally as well as on the PU website www.puchd.ac.in

State education boards are working on an answersheet evaluation system, where results will be declared within three to four weeks after the final day of the exams, said D.V Sharma, general secretary of the Council of Boards for Secondary Education (COBSE). By next year, most boards will declare results before June 10, he added.

Controller of examinations, MDU, Sukhbir Singh said the results were available on the websites www.mdurohtak.org and www.haryana.gov.in

As many as 63,388 candidates took the entrance test.

Meanwhile, the Department of English at MDU will host a workshop on folklore and theatre from September 9 to 11.

Philip Zitowitz, associate professor, Meiji University, Tokyo, Jacques Rochas, renowned director of Portuguese folklore theatre, and Anna Barros, dramatist and teacher (Portugal), would conduct the theatre workshop.

The workshop would focus on folklore, traditional and modern theatre, acting skills and honing communication skills through theatre.