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Three students turn models for aspirants of success

Deepa H. Ramakrishnan

The girls scored 200/200 in food preservation practicals

— Photo: K.V. Srinivasan

SWEET SUCCESS: The State toppers in Food Preservation – D. Anandhi, N. Sukanya and R. Devika – students of Presidency Girls’ Higher Secondary School in Chennai.

CHENNAI: When D. Anandhi’s father, a typewriter mechanic, asked his daughter to take the Food Preservation vocational course, he didn’t think she would come second in the State in that subject. But on Friday, he was a proud father.

A student of Presidency Girls Higher Secondary School in Egmore, which has bagged the first three State ranks in the subject, Anandhi said she planned to do B.Sc. Home Science or Nutrition. “I thought the subject would be easy, but I never imagined a State rank.”

Her classmates, N. Suganya, who came first with a total of 838 marks and R. Devika, who came third with a total of 712 marks, were also pleasantly surprised at their achievement. The girls scored 200/200 in food preservation practicals, which taught them to make jams, jellies, juices, squashes, idly powder and sambar powder.

When Suganya broke the news over the phone to her father, Nagarathinam, who runs a teashop in MGR Colony, her face showed a bundle of anxiety and happiness. “I expected more marks… at least 1000 was what I had in mind. But I lost marks in the English paper,” she said. A class topper throughout, she aspires to become a nurse.

“Since I had typhoid during the exams I thought I would just scrape through. I came to know about the State rank only when I came to school and couldn’t believe it,” said Devika, daughter of P. Ravi, a mechanic/driver. She hopes to become a teacher one day.

School headmistress Vasantha Balakrishnan said not many girls were willing to take the course since it had chemistry and zoology, but these girls had worked really hard for this success.

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