Sunday, May 27, 2018

Didn’t take tuitions, says CBSE topper

Shikha.Salaria@timesgroup.com

Noida: 27.05.2018


Meghna Srivastava, a student of Step By Step School, Sector 132, Noida, has emerged as the all-India topper this year in CBSE Class XII examinations by scoring 499 marks or 99.8%. She is the second girl from the city to achieve the feat consecutively for two years.

A humanities student, Meghna says she is thrilled at the achievement and is trying hard to deal with the sudden media attention.

In fact, the attention is here to stay for a while as she scored 100/100 marks in four subjects — psychology, geography, history and economics — and 99 in English.

Most of the CBSE officials TOI spoke to said this might be the highest score a student has got so far in the Class XII board exams.

While Meghna had been a diligent and a consistent student throughout, the CBSE economics paper leak controversy did upset her, she admitted. “It was really upsetting because I had studied really hard for the economics paper. It was very frustrating when I got to know that there was going to be a re-test. But it was good that it turned out to be as good as my first paper,” she told media persons.

Meghna said she wants to pursue psychology as her major and hopes to get admission in University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

A singer, a voracious reader and an active volunteer of an NGO at her school Step By Step in Sector 132, the 17-yearold says she can’t remember the number of hours she had been devoting to her studies every day.


DELIGHTED: Meghna Srivastava, a student of Step By Step School, Noida, has emerged as the all-India topper this year in CBSE Class XII exams

Separatist’s daughter is topper in J&K

Srinagar: Sama Shabir, daughter of separatist leader Shabir Shah, has topped in Jammu and Kashmir in the CBSE Class XII results . A student of Delhi Public School Athwajan here, Sama Shabir secured 97.8% marks, an official of the school said.

She is the daughter of Jammu Kashmir democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) chief Shabir Shah who is currently lodged in Tihar jail. Shah was arrested in September by the Enforcement Directorate in a case of alleged terror funding in the valley to fuel unrest. Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti congratulated Sama on her success and said she was “truly an inspiration for the youth of our state”. PTI

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