Lucknow boy scores highest marks in SAT
LUCKNOW: Shubh Agrawal, a Class 11 student, has made Lucknow proud by scoring 1590 out of 1600 in Scholastic Aptitude Test for admission in undergraduate programmes of universities or colleges in the United States.
This is for the first time that a Lucknow student has achieved this feat and this is probably the highest score in India for SAT, held on January 21.
SAT is an entrance exam created by the College Board, USA and is used by most colleges and universities in the States to make admission-related decisions.
“Not only can I look forward to applying to the most elite colleges in the US, including Stanford, CalTech, Harvard and MIT, but I can also get substantial scholarship now ,” Agrawal said.
LUCKNOW: Shubh Agrawal, a Class 11 student, has made Lucknow proud by scoring 1590 out of 1600 in SAT for admission in undergraduate programmes of universities or colleges in the United States.
This is for the first time that any student from Lucknow has achieved this feat and this is probably the highest score in India for SAT, which was held on January 21 this year. SAT is an entrance exam created by the College Board, USA, and is used by most colleges and universities in America and globally to make admission decisions.
“I can look forward to not only successfully applying to the most elite colleges in the US, including Stanford, CalTech, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and others, but will also get substantial scholarship,” a jubilant Shubh, a student of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar branch, told HT.
Shubh, the son of a paediatrician father and an anaesthetist mother, scored 800 out of 800 in the maths section and 790 out of 800 in the evidence-based reading and writing in English section. The 16-year-old’s marks are the second highest score possible in the test. His overall score of 1590 represented the highest percentile rank of 99+ in India, said Abha Anant, principal of CMS Gomti Nagar.
The test comprised four sections, two from English (reading and writing) and two from mathematics. The result is in the form of a score ranging from a minimum of 400 to a maximum of 1600, in intervals of 10 points.
“USA UnivQuest is proud to have polished this gem for the world. Shubh is also planning to write AP tests in May to strengthen his application and maximise his scholarship,” Sanjeev Kumar Pandey, centre coordinator and Shubh’s mentor at USA UnivQuest, said.