Aryan tops district in Class XII with 92.5%; Khyati Class X topper with 99%
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) announced the results of the Indian School Certificate (ISC), Class XII, and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), Class X examinations on Wednesday.
Aryan Sharma of St Joseph’s Boys School, Defence Colony, secured the district’s top position in Class XII with 92.56 per cent marks in the non-medical stream. In Class X, it was a clean sweep by girls from St Joseph’s Convent School, Cantonment Road, with Khyati Mohta topping the district with 99 per cent.
In Class XII, Japjit Kaur of the non-medical stream at the same school secured the second position in the district with 91 per cent, while Amanpreet Singh of the commerce stream, also from St Joseph’s Boys School, stood third with 90.25 per cent.
Aryan, who was the Head Boy of his school, said his focus was on understanding concepts rather than clocking fixed study hours. “I didn’t follow a set schedule but concentrated on learning and solving numerical problems. During the last two to three months before the exams, my study hours increased to nearly 10–12 per day,” he said.
Aryan aspires to pursue BTech in engineering followed by a career in entrepreneurship. His father Sanjeev Kumar works as a data-based administrator at the Punjab Land Records Society, while his mother Arti Sharma is a former teacher and now a homemaker.
Second-rank holder Japjit Kaur, who aims to pursue engineering in computer science, said she devoted six hours to the school and studied three more hours after returning home. “I tried to remain calm and avoided getting overwhelmed. I did not use social media at all,” she said.
The daughter of Advocate Baljit Singh of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Dr Jaswinder Kaur, a teacher at Lyallpur Khalsa College, Japjit has won several zonal and regional prizes in declamation, debate, extempore and creative writing.
Amanpreet Singh, who secured third place, shared that he studied for about two to three hours daily, increasing his efforts about one and a half months before the exams.
In the ICSE Class X results, St Joseph’s Convent School, Cantonment Road, witnessed an all-girl top five. Khyati Mohta emerged as the district topper with 99 per cent marks. Janisha Bhatia followed closely with 98.80 per cent, while Yana secured the third spot with 98.60 per cent. Gurmehar Brar and Neha shared the fourth position with 98.20 per cent each.
Khyati, daughter of Dilbagh Singh, Office Assistant at Kendriya Vidyalaya No.1, and Kiran Bala, a primary teacher, has opted for the non-medical stream in Class XI and has already started preparing for engineering entrance exams.
Second topper Janisha Bhatia, daughter of Jagjit Bhatia, Associate Professor at HMV College, and Anjana Bhatia, Dean of Innovation and Research at the same college, aspires to join the NDA. A true all-rounder, she excels in tennis, badminton and chess.
Third position holder Yana also chose non-medical and expressed a deep interest in scientific research. Daughter of Ashish Kumar Arora, Head of the Physics Department at Police DAV School, she said, “Since childhood, I’ve wanted to understand the basic reasons behind scientific phenomena. I revised regularly with a simple, structured plan.”
Jalandhar