Ojaswita wrested the top rank among nearly 8.75 lakh students who took the crucial examination across Maharashtra earlier in March.
NAGPUR: After a hectic year without television or films, topping the merit list of Higher Secondary Certificate examination conducted by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Examination came as a “very pleasant shock” to an ebullient-looking Ojaswita Harish Parate.
With a handsome score of 588 marks out a maximum of 600 — 98 per cent that is — Ojaswita wrested the top rank among nearly 8.75 lakh students who took the crucial examination across Maharashtra earlier in March.
“I had modestly expected to be first among girls in the division. This has come as a very big bonus, I still don’t know if this is a dream or reality,” an ecstatic Ojaswita told a crowd of journalists at a felicitation function held by the Nagpur Union of Working Journalists at the Patrakar Bhawan here. The results were simultaneously declared by all the divisional boards at 11 am on Monday. Ojaswita’s college teachers broke the news to her.
Ojaswita, a student of the Sri Shivaji Science College, is now waiting for the results of the state entrance for medical seats. “I always dreamt of becoming a doctor, and I am sure I’ll get a seat,” she told DNA.
Her father Harish, a Vijaya Bank officer posed in Belgaum currently, said his daughter was a bright student who loved to study hard since her childhood. They knew she would do well in the examination. Her strict daily schedule for the past two years has included five hours of studies apart from the regular schedule of the college and tuition classes.
She admitted that the pressure of competition is hard but there is no escaping it. “There’s a price for everything,” she said philosophically.
Nagpur division registered a total pass percentage of 61.87. Female students outscored boys with a pass percentage of 64.07, as against 59.85 per cent of boys.
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