Kolkata girl tops ISC, girls outshine boys

Kolkata, May 29: Anya Maity of the Heritage School here was declared as the topper of ISC (12th) Boards with 99.5 per cent marks, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examitions announced on Monday. Overall, girls once again outdid boys. Muskan Abdulla Pathan from Hutchings High School, Pune and Ashwin Rao from St Paul’s English School, Bengaluru were declared as joint toppers of ICSE (10th) boards exam with 99.4 per cent marks.

West Bengal figures prominently in the council’s all-India merit list. In ISC, Devesh Lakhotia (Kolkata) clinched the second spot with 99.25 per cent alongwith Ayushi Srivastava (Lucknow), Rishika Dhariwal (Mumbai) and Keertha Srikanth from Gurgaon. Kolkata’s Ant Kothari and Sougata Chowdhury stood third with 99 per cent in addition to Deepthi S. (Dehradun), Vedanshi Gupta and Yukta Mee from Lucknow. In the ICSE merit list, Debasree Pal of Auxilium Convent School, Barasat, North 24 Pargas clocked in at the second position with 99.20 per cent with Farzan Bharucha from Mumbai. (IANS)