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Hyderabad: 11-year-old passes class 12 exam

Agastya Jaiswal passed his class 12 exams with 63% marks from St Mary's Junior College at age 11.

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Child prodigy Agastya Jaiswal has achieved the rare feat of passing the class XII examination at the age of 11. Agastya's father Ashwani Kumar said he passed the intermediate second year examination with 63% marks and claimed that his son was the first person in the state to have passed the examination at such a young age. 

Jaiwal is a student of St Mary's Junior College, Yousufguda, and appeared for the exam in March 2017.  The results of the exam were announced on Sunday. 

Agastya cleared the SSC examination at the age of 9 in 2015, and had then taken permission from the Telangana SSC Board to appear for the exam, Kumar said. But no such special permission is needed to appear for intermediate examination, Kumar said.

An official with the Board of Intermediate Education said the students appearing for the class XII exam only have to give information related to the subjects, medium of instruction and the second language, but not age. The Board of Intermediate Education relies on SSC data for other information, he said.

Agastya is not the only prodigy in the family it would appear. His sister Naina Jaiswal had been merely 8 when she gave her class 10 exams, perhaps the youngest in Asia to do so at the time. The child prodigy only continued to break records. She was the youngest journalism graduate in India at 13 and at 15 years of age, had completed her Post graduate degree. Now 17, she is pursuing her PhD.

Naina Jaiswal is also an international table tennis player who has won multiple titles in both national and international championships.​

Post Agastya's successful results, the proud sister took to social media to tell everyone of her brother's achievements. 

(With PTI inputs)

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