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Of toppers and their ways

Parul Sharma

Son of a DTC machinist, Pankaj Singhal took no coaching for his Class XII Board exams

NEW DELHI: This could perhaps be a first for a Delhi Government school.

For someone who took no coaching to prepare for his Class XII Central Board of Secondary Education exams in which he secured an exceptional 95.8 per cent, Pankaj Singhal’s story is most certainly inspiring and awesome.

Son of an assistant machinist with Delhi Transport Corporation, Pankaj, a student of Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Surajmal Vihar, has topped among the Government schools in Delhi.

He is the only candidate from the Government schools in the Delhi region to have secured more than 95 per cent marks.

“I was expecting around 90 per cent marks in the Board exams. I am absolutely elated. I have been busy throughout the day giving interviews and meeting people. I have not even been able to think of how to celebrate my success!” says the youngster.

Pankaj’s dream destination is IIT Delhi where he wants to study mechanical engineering.

With 85 per cent hearing disability, Mudit Kalra is another achiever having secured 90.2 per cent marks in the Commerce stream.

His teachers at St. Mark’s Senior Secondary Public School, Meera Bagh, are all praises for this exemplary boy.

His mother Suman Kalra says: “He scored very well in Class X and XI too, so we were expecting a good result from him. He is a very hard-working boy. His teachers and classmates have been extremely cooperative.”

Three students – Abhishek Kumar, Ghazal Tansir and Pallavi Jain – have topped the Delhi region securing an outstanding 96.8 per cent.

“Initially, I tried to learn too many concepts, but then later I realised that I should just stick to the NCERT syllabus. Reference books helped me to clear the concepts. Of course, being regular to school also helped,” said Abhishek, a student of DAV School, Vikaspuri.

Ghazal from Blue Bells International School, Kailash Colony, credited her accomplishment to her hard work and dedication. “My school teachers and coaching institute also helped me to prepare. I was expecting this result since I had prepared that way,” said this medical aspirant.

For a Science student, Pallavi surprises many by her choice of studying Economics at college. “I am not interested in Engineering or Medicine. It is a misconception that only Commerce students can study Economics. That subject requires analysis and reasoning that Science students have in abundance,” said this confident student of Modern School, Barakhamba Road, who treated her NCERT books as “the Bible”.

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