Yukta’s success mantra: Staying away from peer pressure
LUCKNOW: Yukta Meena has always followed the mantra of staying away from peer pressure to bring the best out of her.
With a 100 in physics, chemistry and computer science and 96 in English and mathematics, Meena of St Agnes’ Loreto Day School scored 99% in the ISC examination to share the third place in the country with four other students.
“I kept reminding myself that I have to stay away from peer pressure. This is what made me perform well,” the 18-year-old said.
“We live in a joint family with 10 members in the house, including my parents, grandparents and granduncle and aunt. I am the youngest in the family among the cousins and thus the joy is manifold at my achievement,” she said.
Daughter of a retired official of the Research Design and Standard Organisation (RDSO), Meena’s brother is a graduate of the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology in Allahabad.
In addition to devoting time for studies, Meena likes to spend her leisure hours by sketching and baking.
Her teachers said Meena has always been a good student.
“Yukta Meena has done us really proud. She has always been a very sincere and diligent student and a good leader. She was a member of the student council and took active part in the co-curricular activities as well,” Debra Bunnyw, principal of St Agnes’ Loreto Day School, said.
“A respectful student who has always carried herself with grace and dignified composure, she has also never hesitated from voicing her opinion,” she said.
“Yukta has been very consistent in her efforts throughout the year. She is very meticulous in her approach and about presentation of her work,” her chemistry teacher Ishani Roy Chowdhry added.
Meena shared her rank with Vedanshi Gupta of City Montessori School in Lucknow’s Rajendra Nagar, Anant Kothari and Sougata Chowdhury from St Xavier’s Collegiate School in Kolkata and Deepthi S of Dehradun’s Convent of Jesus and Mary High School.