5 Bengaluru students bag second highest mark

BENGALURU: Five students from Bengaluru are among the 34 who secured the second merit position nationally in the ICSE (class 10) results announced on Sunday evening. They bagged 498 marks in English + best 4 subjects.
Karnataka secured 99.99 pass percentage, with 23,293 students taking the exam. The All-India pass percentage is 99.97%. The ICSE marks were calculated by adding the term 1, term 2 and project (internal assessment marks) scores. The national toppers, who secured 499 marks are: Hargun Kaur Matharu from St Mary's School, Pune; Anika Gupta from Sheiling House school, Kanpur; Pushkar Triparhi from Jesus and Mary School and College, Balrampur, and Kanishka Mittal, City Montessori School, Lucknow.
The five students from Bengaluru who secured the top marks share a passion for pure Science, except for Vidharthi BN of MES Kishore Kendra Public School, who has opted for Commerce combination in MES Vidya Mandir PU College.
Sandhya S, student of New Horizon Public School, said her dream is to become a Physicist and professor. "I want to get a PhD in Physics. Physics has a lot of relation to real life. I am intrigued by several questions about our existence and the world, which triggers my interest in Physics and Chemistry," she said. She is currently pursuing PCMC in NPS, ITPL.
Rahul Dutta, a student of Clarence Public School, JP Nagar, aspires to become an astrophysicist. Currently with Base PU College in Basavangudi, he plans to write both KVPY (Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana) and JEE that holds key to UG programme in IISc.
"I am intrigued by the concepts of space, time travel and much more," he said. "I am a slow starter. But once I understand the concepts well, then I apply it everywhere. I try to crack every problem I come across," he said.
Rahul is a speed Rubix cube solver. "I watched on the internet people solving Rubix cube in a matter of 3-4 seconds. I started to learn by myself and now I can do it in 8 seconds," he said.
Adi Krishna, a student of Trio World School, said the extensive revision and the conceptual clarity his teachers provided in the subjects helped him score well. "It helped me develop an interest in learning. For many students who find learning difficult, do not enjoy the process," he said.
Currently, a student of CMR NPS, Adi wants to pursue pure Physics in college and is preparing for KVPY to seek admission to IISc. "Physics ensures very little memorisation. There is a lot of problem solving, Maths and abstraction," he said.
Nihara Mariam Oommen of Bethany High School said she is swinging between computer science and bachelors in Chemistry. "Chemistry is kind of magical for me because of all the colours. I started loving computer science after my grade 9," she said.
A singer and keyboard player for the past 13 years, she has been a part of the Harmony children's chorus. "It has been my biggest stress buster. I did not drop it even during my grade 10. During Covid, I learnt a bit of Ukulele as well. I have been learning to manage both academics and music from lower grades," she said.
Vidharthi has taken up Maths, Statistics, Business Analytics and Accountancy. "I want to pursue CA. I have an interest in investment and stocks and chartered accountancy has been a childhood dream," she said.
Vidharthi said she ensured that she studied around 6 hours every day after school. "I studied from multiple textbooks, practised specimen question papers and revised question banks," she said.
There are 17 students from the state who have secured 497 marks and 30 students with 496 students.