With an increase in three marks owing to revaluation, a Hubballi girl has bagged the third place in the State in the SSLC examinations.
Sahana Hiremani of Chetan Public School, who had applied for revaluation of her papers, got two more marks in Mathematics taking her marks from 98 to 100 and in Social Studies, she got one more mark, taking the overall marks to 99 from 98.
Sahana’s total marks tally stood at 621 out of 625 (99.36 per cent) taking her to the third position in the State and second position in Dharwad district.
The topper for Dharwad district, Disha Hegde of Shanthi Sadana High School, had scored 622 marks in the SSLC examination to share the second place with four other students at the State-level. Principal of the school M.M. Karegoudar and others have congratulated Sahana, who is now the third topper in the State.