Mumbaikars had reason to be proud after Kruti Shah, a resident of Borivali, was declared the All-India topper of the CA Final May 2013 exams, which was declared on Tuesday.
The 22-year-old has said that the achievement is not new to her, as she has consistently been topping her exams, and plans to continue her studies, rather than bask in the glory.
Speaking to The Asian Age, Shah said that while initially, she had not fared well, her performance picked up in the next group, which came as a relief. “I had been practising hard for a year, and had concentrated only on preparing for the exams after graduating last year. Hence, I was disappointed with my performance in the first paper of group I,” said the former NM College student. The support her father, CA Bhadresh Shah, also an established chartered accountant, helped tide her over her disappointment, and strengthened her resolve to do better in the following papers.
“I managed to score 611 marks from both groups, and was surprised that I was the topper,” said Shah. “I plan to work with a CA firm other than my father’s for a couple of years, and get more insight into taxation laws. I will also be pursuing a degree in law,” she added.
Shah’s father said, “I am happy with my daughter’s achievement, and am proud of her performance. I do not want to influence her decision in any way, and have left her to choose her career path.”
In total, 50,354 students appeared for both groups of the finals, out of whom 9,389 students succeeded.
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COBBLER’S SON MAKES IT TO VJTI
Mumbai, July 15: A poor cobbler’s son, Ketan Domaji Vijaykar, has made his parents proud by scoring good marks in the recent MT-CET exams, making it to the prestigious Veermata Jijabai Technological
Institute (VJTI).
Ketan overcame all odds to score well without any tuitions or special coaching classes during high school days. He even did not have the money to pay his fees to VJTI, but now Ketan is happy to have received
financial support from one of his teachers and a group of people from the city.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday evening, Ketan along with his father, Domaji Vijaykar, said that he had scored 99.09 marks in his SSC exams, followed by 84.6 per cent in his HSC exam.
Similarly, he scored 135 marks out of 200 in the MT-CET exams and got admitted to the information
technology branch, in first year BE at VJTI, Mumbai. He studied in the Chakravarti Rajgopalachari Primary School run by the Chandrapur Municipality and then took admission in Gondwana Sainiki
Vidyalaya at Gadchiroli and studied there between Class
6 and 12. —PTI