Mumbai boys, girls among ICSE, ISC toppers

Ananya Patwardhan from Mumbai and Tezan Sahu from Navi Mumbai were among three students who topped the Indian Certificate of Secondary Examination (ICSE) Class 10 examinations. All three scored 496 out of 500. The third student is Sougata Chowdhury from Kolkata.

Patwardhan is from the Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School (CNMS) in Vile Parle, and Sahu is from the St Mary's School, Koperkhairane.

Mumbai students also hogged national limelight in the Indian School Certificate (ISC) examinations for Class 12. Ashutosh Lohana from Lilavatibai Podar High School, Santa Cruz, and Sanjana Ravjiani from the Gregorios High school, Chembur, scored 397 out of 400 to emerge as all-India toppers.

The ICSE examinations also saw Hardik Agarwal scoring 99% from CNMS and Kunjal Shah from the Lilavatibai Podar High School scoring 98.04%.

From CNMS, out of 301 students, 250 secured 90% and above in the ICSE Class 10 examinations.

Talking to media, Amrish Patel, President and Trustee of CNMS, said, "We are very proud that our student Ananya have stood first in the all-India level. The number of students scoring above 90% from our school has increased from last year. This is commendable. We are going to start ISC 12th classes in the new academic year."

Tezan, a resident of Koperkhairane, is also interested in painting. An excellent artist, Tezan has conducted two solo exhibitions of his paintings in Vashi. The first one was when he was in standard III and later when he was in standard IX. He is also interested in singing and this has worked as a stress buster for him during exam preparations.