Hearing impaired girl proves her mettle, scores 923/1,000

May 18, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 08:03 am IST - NAGERCOIL:

Daughter of an autorickshaw driver, M. Vijithra of Oral Higher Secondary School for the Deaf, stood first in the State among differently abled students. She scored 923 marks out of 1000, said school’s Founder Director P.J. Christopher here on Tuesday.

M. Ashwin Kumaar of the same school bagged the third rank in the State with 915 marks.

The differently abled children were exempted from appearing for the English language paper, he said.

Ms. Vijithra pursued Computer Science and Accountancy stream in order to take up B.Com through the distance education programme of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University.

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