Mangaluru: Vaishanavi Ballal, a student of Expert PU College Kodialbail, has scored 100 marks in five subjects and 90 in English.  She has taken, Physics, Chemistry, Math’s and Biology (PCMB) combination. In her Sanskrit language, she has scored cent percent in each.

She was a gold medalist in tenth standard, and studied at Sharada Vidyalaya Having done well in CBSE has also helped her get into Expert. She has excelled in extra curricular activities also. She is a good Bharatnatyam Dancer, a carnatic singer, a brown belt karate champion, topped in Abacus at State, National and World no2 as grandmaster at a competition held Malaysia.

She is likely to purse the footsteps of her father Dr, Rajesh Ballal, who is a General Surgeon, in K.S.Hedge Hospital, since she has taken CET, NEET-1 and is an aspirant for MBBS seat. Her Mother Vasundra is a home-maker, but she is also an artist  and has displayed her work in Sharada Vidyalaya and Prasad Art gallery.

Vaishanavi believes that she has done so well in English, but since she has scored way below her expectation, she is now planning to ask for re-totaling and is confident of scoring better marks.