National-level shooter, twins with identical marks, perfect 100 scorers meet CBSE toppers

A national-level shooter who battled dyslexia, identical twin sisters who scored perfectly identical marks, a Lucknow girl and a Bulandshahar boy who scored perfect 100 in all subjects are among the top scorers in the class 12 results announced by the CBSE.

A national-level shooter who battled dyslexia, identical twin sisters who scored perfectly identical marks, a Lucknow girl, and a Bulandshahar boy who scored perfect 100 in all subjects are among the top scorers in the class 12 results announced by the CBSE. While the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) decided against announcing a merit list this year in view of the exceptional circumstances amid COVID-19 pandemic, several schools announced their respective toppers. Elated parents and students also took to social media to share the results, which were announced on Monday. The number of students scoring over 95 percent in class 12 exam this year is more than double the 2019 figure of 17,693, the CBSE said. In 2020, a year when the examinations were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, this figure more than doubled, with 38,686 students scoring above 95 percent

Similarly, the number of students who scored above 90 percent also increased from about 94,000 students in 2019 to almost 1.6 lakh in 2020, it said. Rhea Negi, a student of Army Public School, Noida who represented India in national-level shooting competitions scored 90.6 percent marks. She battled dyslexia at a young age and appeared for the class 12 exams independently. Tushar Singh, a student of Delhi Public School (DPS), Bulandshahar, scored a perfect 100 in all subjects in the Humanities stream. Lucknow girl Divyanshi Jain also scored a perfect 100 in six subjects--English, Sanskrit, History, Geography, Insurance, and Economics. "All my exams were over before lockdown was announced. The only Geography was the one canceled," she says

Noida-based twins, Mansi and Manya, not only look identical but scored perfectly identical marks. The sister duo scored 95.8 percent marks in class 12. Both of them plan to pursue engineering and are waiting to appear for the JEE-Mains, which has been postponed to September because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having identical looks and habits, the sisters say they were sure of a good performance but not of identical scores. "Everybody remembers us for the identical looks and it is only our names that differentiate us. We were confident about scoring good, but we're not hoping to score identical marks," an elated Mansi tells PTI. Kunika Sehgal, a student of Presentation Convent School, scored 94.33 percent marks. "I was never stressed about exams, but the postponement of exams twice and delay in results did give me some anxiety," she says. Simran Raina, a student of DPS Dwarka, scored 97 percent marks with perfect 100 in psychology. Girls outshone boys by nearly 6 percentage points in the CBSE class 12 examination results declared on Monday based on an alternative assessment system adapted after some tests had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 11.92 lakh candidates appeared for the examination.