Mohammad Kaif Mulla scored 99.84% marks in his SSLC exam and stood first in the district and second in the state.
BENGALURU: A boy from Bengaluru who was not satisfied with an incredible score of 624/625 sent his papers for reevaluation only for them to return with full marks, making him the topper in the Karnataka state board Class X exams.
The student of St Xavier’s High School in Karnataka’s Belgaum, Kaif earned the top spot among 13 lakh students.
Mohammad Kaif Mulla had scored 100% marks in all his subjects except science. Believing that there was an error, he resent his marks.
Not happy to share the topper spot, he applied for re-evaluation of his Science paper, in which he had fallen short of one mark.
Student of Belgaum’s St Xavier High School, Kaif aspires to be a civil servant and work towards educating child labourers.
The IAS aspirant, who will opt for Science stream in Class 11, is the son of two teachers Haroon Rashid Mulla and Parveen Mulla.Kaif comes from a lower middle class background.
His father, Haroon, works as an Urdu teacher in a government primary school, while his mother teaches Kannada in a government high school.
His father pointed out that Kaif was someone who did not spend time on distractions like social media.
Yashas MS and Sudarshan KS are the only two students to have secured 100 percent mark in the Karnataka SSLC examinations conducted by the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB).
