Rajkot girl tops Microsoft test

Shruti Doshi, a girl student from Rajkot, has got the top rank in an online test conducted by the computer software giant Microsoft Corporation. The girl, an engineering student of a Rajkot-based college, provided correct answers to each of the 1,000 questions, put up by company as part of its Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) course. 

Showing her brilliance, she took only 32 minutes to answers all questions against the stipulated time limit of one hour. The MOS course is being conducted by Microsoft Corporation directly through its approved centres across 150 countries.

This five-month course contains basic computer course regarding Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook Express. After that, the student has to appear in the online examination conducted by Microsoft.

"It is a matter of pride that Shruti came first in the examination, putting behind 40,000 students worldwide," said Chirag Kothari, the centre head at Inside Tomorrow Computer Academy, Rajkot where Shruti studied. "The examination was conducted through January and Shruti appeared on January 26," Kothari said.  "I am extremely delighted after hearing the news that I stood first in the global examination," said Shruti. She said, "I had honestly expected to get 900 marks, out of 1,000 and it gives me immense pleasure to secure the top rank."

Interestingly, a student gets only 3.6 second to reply to each question and she showed rapid speed to give correct answers of all questions well before the stipulated time of an hour.

The success has made sure she gets good offers from corporate houses, who are already making a beeline for her with big offers.