Science topper aiming a seat in NITK Surathkal

Princilla Cardoza from The Learning Centre PU College, Mangaluru, the topper from the Science stream with 599 marks, said her preparation was more focused on the IIT-JEE main. “I want to pursue B.Tech in Artificial Intelligence or Computer Science in NITK Surathkal and hence focused more on JEE Main,” said Ms. Cardoza, who secured 98.8 percentile in the JEE Main first session. She said she did well in the second session held few days ago.

“In between, during class tests and unit tests, I prepared for the PU examination. A month after JEE first session was devoted for II PU exam preparation,” she said. Ms. Cardoza is the youngest of the two daughters of Benadict Prakash D’Souza, who works in Saudi Arabia and homemaker Jacintha Cardoza. Ms. Cardoza passed out class 10 from Mount Carmel CBSE School, Mangaluru.