PSEB Class 12 result: Was confident of results, says state topper Amisha Arora

Amisha Arora, a commerce student of RS Model Senior Secondary School in Ludhiana, topped in the state with 98.44% marks.

Written by Divya Goyal

Ludhiana | Updated: May 15, 2017 12:46 PM IST

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In continuing trend of girls outshining the boys, two girls from Ludhiana topped the state as Punjab School of Education Board (PSEB) declared results for class 12 on Saturday. Amisha Arora, a commerce student of RS Model Senior Secondary School in Ludhiana, topped in the state with 98.44% marks. At the second place is Prabhjot Joshi, a student of BCM Senior Secondary School Focal Point who secured 98.22% marks in humanities stream.

Amisha, whose father runs a ration shop while mother is a homemaker, said she wasn’t surprised with the results considering the hard work put in by her and the teachers. “Since I had topped in class 11 also, my teachers were expecting from me that I will secure a rank at the state level. I was also expecting a rank at the state level, but first rank was definitely a pleasant surprise,” she said. Amisha now plans to pursue B.com from Government College of Girls Ludhiana. “The ultimate aim to do PhD,” she said.

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She also lauded the efforts put in by her father. “My father is not a rich man who would give in to every tantrum of his children, but I just told him I wanted to change school and study in RS Model, which is known for producing toppers every year. He agreed and got me admission here, which I feel was his biggest gift to me,” she said.

Prabhjot Joshi, a humanities student from BCM Senior Secondary School Focal Point, secured 98.22% marks. Her father works as an employee in a private company. “Yes there is a little regret that I wasn’t able to top in the state due to slight margin, but I am satisfied I am the state topper in humanities stream,” said Joshi.

“I would now be pursuing law from Panjab University,” she said. Asked if she expected securing second rank in state, she said, “In our school it is taught that we should aim for the highest, that is what we did and I am glad that I was able to fulfill expectations of my teachers were always available for me.”

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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