Lucknow cheers as three girls make it to ISC top 3 list

Ayushi Srivastava scores 99.25% to be on second rank with three others. Vedanshi Gupta and Yukta Meena get 99% to share third spot with three others

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh has a reason to cheer as three girls from Lucknow made it to the top 3 list of this year’s ISC examinations, the results of which were declared on Monday.

Ayushi Srivastava of City Montessori School (Gomti Nagar), Lucknow shared second rank with three others by securing 99.25% (397 out of 400).

Vedanshi Gupta of City Montessori School (Rajendra Nagar), Lucknow and Yukta Meena of St Agnes’ Loreto Day School scored 99% each and shared the third spot in the ISC examination with three others.

Ananya Maity of The Heritage School, Kolkata topped in ISC with 99.50%. The other three second rank holders were Devesh Lakhotia of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s Collegiate School, Rishika Dhariwal of Mumbai’s Jamnabai Narsee School, and Keerthana Srikanth of Scotish High International School in Gurgaon. They got 397 marks out of 400.

Likewise, those on third rank included: Anant Kothari and Sougata Chowdhury, both from St Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata; Deepthi S of Convent of Jesus and Mary High School, Dehradun.

Pankhuri Gidwani, second runner-up, Miss India 2016 secured 97.25% marks in ISC examination. A student of La Martiniere Girls’ College, she did not appear in the examination last year as she was taking part in the Miss India contest. She scored 99 in history and wants to pursue performing arts or Bachelor in Mass Media from Mumbai, said her father Deepak Gidwani.

In ICSE, Muskan Abdulla Pathan from Hutchings High School, Pune and Ashwin Rao from St Paul’s English School, Bengaluru were declared as joint toppers of the Class 10 exam with 99.4%.

The pass percentage of candidates who took the ICSE exam was 98.53 and that of the ISC students was 96.47.

Last year, 98.50% students cleared the ICSE exam and 96.46% candidates passed the ISC. In terms of pass percentage, girls fared better than boys in both forms of the exams. In ICSE, 99.03% girls passed and 98.13% boys cleared the exam.

Similarly in ISC, girls outperformed boys with a pass percentage of 97.73 as compared to the 95.39% boys who cleared the exam. Nearly 2,40,660 candidates – 1,68,591 for ICSE and 72,096 for ISC – appeared in the exams this year.