NTSE result: Sky is the limit for city lads

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 17

Mridul Gupta, a student of Innocent Hearts Public School in Jalandhar, has topped the NTSE stage II exam in the district by securing 145 out of 196 marks.

Jalandhar students Daksh Bhatti and Manan Sethi have cleared the NTSE exams, securing second position in Jalandhar with 138 out of 196 marks. The trio qualified the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) 2020 stage II, the results of which were declared on Friday. Daksh Bhatti (17) had also performed impressively in the state-level test stage 1 of NTSE also, in which he had got 186/200 marks and 6th rank in Punjab.

Speaking to The Tribune, Daksh gave credit for his success to his parents. Daksh’s parents Professor Adarsh Bhatti and mother Vandana Bhatti, are both teachers. His uncle Kulwinder Gakhal also supported him in the pursuit.

Currently studying in Class XII (non-medical) and preparing for JEE, Daksh wants to qualify JEE and eventually aspires to make it to IIT. He also qualified VVM Vigyan Vidya Manthan and attended the Indian National Science Congress at Lucknow. He wants to develop technology which can provide earlier warning signal of heart attack at least 12 hours earlier. He says he wants to do it because it will help to serve humanity.

Manan Sethi, a student of APJ School, Mahavir Marg, Jalandhar is also currently pursuing the non-medical stream. Mana’s father Rajit Sethi is a financial consultant and his mother Seema Sethi is an Assistant Professor in Other students who qualified the stage II of the NTSE-2020 include Sarthak Kapoor from APJ School, Mahavir Marg, who aspires to be an entrpreneur, and Shivam Bhagat student of NGN Public School Adarsh Nagar who aspires to master software development and Tanveer Singh from MGN Public School Jalandhar.

In all, as many as seven to eight students in the district, have cracked the NTSE exam. Majority of them are from the non-medical stream.