Deepanika tops in district with 98.4%

Neha Saini

 Tribune News Service

 Amritsar, July 15, 2020

Girls, once again, outperformed boys as the CBSE Class X results were announced on Wednesday. Deepanika Gupta from DAV International School emerged as the city and district topper with 98.4% marks. Coming from a family of academicians, her father Amardeep Gupta is the principal, DAV College, Dasuya and her mother Jijina Mahajan is a professor at BBKDAV college in city. Deepanika got overall score of 492 out of 500.

 The second position in city was jointly shared by Mehr Sethi of DPS and Sirjanpreet Kaur from Springdales Public School, who both scored 98.2% marks. The third position in city, too, was shared by Harkirat Chaddha of DAV Public School, Saanvi of Police DAV Public School and Avneet Kaur of DAV International School with a score of 98%.

 Overall 7,584 students registered for CBSE Class X in 2020 from Amritsar. Just like CBSE Class XII, Class X too, has more number of girls in the achievers list. The other meritorious students from city include Dimplepreet from Police DAV Public School with 97.6%, Shivansh Mangal from Shri Ram Ashram School with 97.4%., Paritosh Sharma from DPS with 97.4%, Gaurang Gupta stood second with a score of 97.3%, Savreet from DPS with 97.2% DPS, Tanveer Kaur from DAV public School with 97.2 % .

An overwhelming result

Sharing their excitement and happiness, the achievers and their families called this year’s results ‘overwhelming and encouraging.’ “It’s was overwhelming result for us as a family for so many reasons,” shared Amardeep Gupta, father of district topper Deepanika. “Since the lockdown and cancellation of exams by CBSE due to Covid 19 induced conditions, the kids were under a lot of stress. But the result has motivated them for their academic future ahead,” he said. Sirjanpreet too said that she did expect a good result, but getting a position among top three in city is like an icing on the cake.

 Manmeet Singh, father of Mehr Sethi, too, said that the results have relieved the stress of students as well as parents. “Past few months have been quite stressful as there was a lot of uncertainity. Also, we were contemplating on how the assessment will be done for exams this year and if it would do justice to the hard work put in by the children.”

Post result, the top rankers in city are working towards their future academic goals. Deepanika, who is currently pursuing Class XI from DAV International, said that she wants to take up non-medical stream and pursue engineering in future. She credited her academic success to her self study as she did not take any coaching or tuitions outside of school.

 Joint second position holders in city, Mehr Sethi and Srijanpreet want to pursue non-science careers. Mehr wants to become a CA and her goal is to get admission in SRCC, the top ranked college in commerce stream in the country. Sirjanpreet wants to pursue psychology as she finds it an interesting subject with immense potential.

 The only boy among the top three in city, Harkirat Chadda, who scored 98%, wants to take up non-medical and pursue research in the field of artificial intelligence.