PSEB class 10 results: Ludhiana takes second and third spots on academic merit list

This year too, Ludhiana bagged the maximum 113 overall merit ranks in the state.

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Amit Yadav, who stood second with 98.62 per cent marks in academic category, celebrates with his friends at Sai Senior Secondary School in Ludhiana Monday.

ENDING A two-year dry spell in the Class X results of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), two Ludhiana students stood second and third in the state on the academic merit list announced on Monday. In 2015 and 2016, not a single student from Ludhiana came in the top three on the academic merit list. But, like previous years, students from the district came first and second on the sports category merit list.

This year too, Ludhiana bagged the maximum 113 overall merit ranks in the state. Last year, however, the number was 121, the highest in Punjab. Amit Yadav, a student of Sai Public Senior Secondary School, Shimlapuri of Ludhiana, stood second with 98.62 per cent marks in academic category.

Missing out on the first rank to Shruti Vohra (who secured 98.77 per cent) of Ropar district by a whisker, Amit said he has opted for the medical stream in Class XI. He also works part time to help his father, a factory worker.

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“I never took tuition as neither was there any need, nor my parents could afford it. Whatever free time I got from studies, I spent that on working with my father to help him. Also, our school organised extra classes for us and teachers were always there to help. I want to be a professor in medical stream and pursue some interesting research,” he said. Simmi Kumari, who came third on the academic merit list also from Sai Public Senior Secondary School, scored 98.31 per cent and opted for commerce. “I was certainly expecting a rank in the top ten but not in top three. Now, I want to pursue commerce and become a chartered accountant,” she said. Her father runs a general store and mother is a homemaker. She, too, never took tuition. “The extra classes in school were always helpful and enough to keep us updated.”

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Sports list toppers

On the sports merit list, where students get an additional 15-25 marks for taking up a sport, Amandeep Verma from BCM School Focal Point of Ludhiana came first in the state with 99.08 per cent.

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A state-level baseball player, he, however, would not be continuing with the sport now. “I have opted for non-medical stream which requires full concentration on studies. I want to be a software engineer,” said Verma, whose father is a worker at Hero Cycles. Despite having a sport, he never opted for tuition. “Teachers were always helpful and I concentrated on self-studies. So, tuition was never required.” Jyoti Panwar, a state-level baseball player from BCM School Focal Point, came second. Her father is an electrician and mother a homemaker. “I have now opted for the medical stream as I want to be a cardiologist. I never took any tuition for Class X but always made it a point to self study for four to six hours,” she said.

Nancy from Play Ways Senior Secondary School, Patiala, came third with 98.31 per cent marks.

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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