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It's will that's powering their shot at the Plus-Two exams

K. Manikandan

PERSEVERANCE: Arun Kumar, with his bandaged leg, writing Plus-Two examinations in Chromepet on Thursday. — Photo: A. Muralitharan

TAMBARAM : After 14 years in school, several lakh students go to the examination halls, focussed and confident.

When the Plus-Two examinations began on Thursday, there were some students, who walked into the examinations halls, only because of their willpower. A couple of students in the Tambaram area went to the examination centres with bandaged legs; others were battling fever.

Arun Kumar, a Plus-Two student in S. C. S. Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Chromepet, was riding pillion on a motorcycle when it hit a lamppost three weeks ago. His knee was severely damaged and doctors at Parvathy Ortho Hospital performed a complicated surgery to get him ready in time for the final examinations. After successful completion of practical tests, he was taken to the examination hall at a government school in Chromepet with the help of his relatives. Resting his injured left leg on a chair, he wrote the examinations. ``It was nothing but sheer willpower that got him ready in time,'' remarked V. Santhanam, correspondent of the school.

S. Lakshmi, a student of Valluvar Gurukalam in Tambaram, was injured in the leg after a fall at her home. With a bandaged limb, she was taken to Jaigopal Garodia National Higher Secondary School in East Tambaram, her examination centre, by her parents. However, after finishing the paper, she managed to come out of the school on her own.

Officials said several other students suffering from fever and other complications appeared for the examinations. Though they suffered, they did not complain, the officials said, appreciating their determination to succeed.

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