Karnataka: 13 students score 625 out of 625 in Chikkaballapura school

BENGALURU: When the Class 10 exam results were announced, staff and students of Sri Balagangadharanatha Swamiji High School, Agalagurki, Chikkaballapura taluk were over the moon. After all, 13 of 157 students who scored 625 out of 625 are from this school.Of the nearly 15,000 schools whose students wrote the exam, the Agalagurki school accounted for the highest number of maximum scorers. In all, 152 of its students wrote the exam. The school has four students in second place, two in third, ten in fourth and five in fifth spot.“It’s a great moment,” said principal Mohan Kumar DC. “The government announced changes in the exam pattern towards the end of the academic year. We divided students into groups based on performance. Each teacher was assigned 15 students. They called them daily, gave exams, assessed them and gave feedback immediately,” he said. “Closer to the exam, we called students to the campus in small groups,” he added.The students are from rural and urban backgrounds as well as various financial backgrounds. The school has only English medium education. “We understood their background and handheld them accordingly,” Kumar said. “Though we’ve had second and third ranks earlier, we’re scoring first ranks for the first time,” he said.