Manish Kumar, all-India topper with 99.4%

He has done Bihar, his school and his parents proud by topping the CBSE Class X examination this year, securing an aggregate of 99.4 per cent marks. Tuesday was a big day for Manish Kumar, a student of Gyan Niketan. His father Sanjay Kumar is the Director of Accounts, Postal Services and mother Sunita Kumari is a housewife.Manish had secured over 95 per cent in the pre-Board examination, giving a clear hint of things to follow.'Now my next immediate target is to crack IIT after completing class 12 as I want to become an engineer.Prashant Suman, Robin Kumar, and Rajiv Ranjan, also of Gyan Niketan, made their teachers, parents, and state proud by earning 98.4%, 98.2%, and 98.2% each.Manish secured 100 marks each in Science and Social Science and 99 each in Mathematics, Sanskrit and Introductory Information Technology. To calculate his aggregate, he does not count the marks fetched in English -- 91 per cent. Manish completed the syllabus thoroughly by the month of October after which he kept revising. In January, he joined Comprehensive Coaching Point where he did extensive practice through test series questions.