Three girls from the state secured the top three positions by scoring 99.40% equal marks. Board President Dr. Yog Raj Sharma while announcing the result said that three girls- Arshdeep Kaur of Ludhiana, Arshpreet Kaur and Jaito of Mansa, Kulwinder Kaur of Faridkot secured 497/500 marks but they got first, second and second marks respectively. Got third place. Been engaged. on the basis of their age. “The youngest has been declared the topper,” he said, adding that all three are from the humanities stream.
Arshdeep Kaur of Teja Singh Swatantra Memorial Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana secured the first position. His father Gurmeet Singh runs a motorbike repair shop and mother Balwinder Kaur is a homemaker. “I was confident that I would be in the merit list but I didn’t think I would be the topper. Now I will prepare for civil services and become an IAS officer. Arshdeep’s main subjects were Mathematics, Economics, English and Punjabi.
His father Gurmeet Singh told that Arshdeep used to take only mathematics tuitions and mostly depended on self study. “She worked hard and now her hard work has paid off. Kovid brought tough times for small shopkeepers like me but my daughter has made me very proud.
Ludhiana district has a pass percentage of 96.84 with 34,229 out of 35,346 candidates who passed the exam. Jagjit Singh of Bachhuana village in Mansa was also the father of a small farmer who had only two acres of agricultural land, as his daughter Arshpreet Kaur, who studied in the village’s Government Senior Secondary School, had secured second place in the state. Jagjit said, “I did not have money for his studies, but Arshpreet studied all night and finally he achieved this feat.”
A shy Arshpreet said that she also wants to prepare for civil services. his teacher, Nirmal SinghSaid that Arshpreet had taken admission in their school in class 6 and since then she has topped in every class.
Having secured 99.40% marks in Humanities stream, Kulwinder Kaur from Jaito town of Faridkot is the daughter of Balvir Singh, who works as a bookkeeper (accountant) at a brick kiln. Kulwinder said, ‘I want to go to Australia to study law. He said that he did not take any other subject apart from mathematics.