Pranjal Singh tops CBSE exams

Source :TNN, May 21, 2010, 10.52pm IST



VARANASI: Pranjal Singh of Sunbeam School, Bhagwanpur, emerged as the city topper as the results of CBSE class XII were announced on Friday.

While girls outshone boys in overall pass percentage, the boys hogged the limelight by becoming individual toppers in various city schools. As per reports, Pranjal Singh topped with 96.2 per cent marks, while Shruti Singh (95.4%) of DPS, Varanasi, and Saumya Mohan (94.6%) of Sunbeam, Bhagwanpur, were other top rankers in the city.

Interestingly, most of the city schools witnessed a high pass percentage (over 90%). Aryan International School (100 %), St Atulanand Convent School( 99.7 %), Sunbeam Academy (99%) , Swami Harsewanand Public School (98.4%), CHS (girls), BHU (94%), Glenhill School (94%) and CHS Boys' School (92.8 %) fared well in the examinations.

The individual toppers in science stream from different schools included Rohit Singh (93.8%) of CHS Boys' School, Kritesh Patel (93.4 %) of St Atulanand Convent School, Priyanshi Srivastava (92.8 %) of DALIMSS, Rishav Nigam (92.4 %) of Sunbeam Academy, Akash Maheshwari (92.6%) of Glenhill Academy, Dipika Rao (92.4%) of Sunbeam Lahartara, Abhishek Kumar Singh (92.4%) of Gurunanak English School and Atisha Srivastava (92.2%) of Sunbeam Varuna.