Books more important than Facebook

Books more important than Facebook

Class 12th topper says staying offline helped him concentrate better

Mir Liyaqut Ali

Srinagar, Feb 03: Atif Jan (19) uses internet, but unlike his friends, his primary objective to engage World Wide Web is research.

He topped the class 12th results with 490 marks in science stream on Thursday and has never been active on any social networking site. He continues to believe, they are not “important.”

A student from the prestigious Tyndale Biscoe Higher Secondary School, Atif says that he is not against the social networking, but they are not just for him.

“I am more comfortable talking to my friends directly rather than using the wires and wireless medium as a tool of communication,” he said.

Atif comes from a modest family in Nowshera, Srinagar. His father, Muhammad Ayub is a project officer in Entrepreneurship Development Institute and mother Parveena an employee in SKUAST.

He said that people might be getting information on social networking sites and said, “let others do what they want to do I don’t find any encyclopedia on Facebook to get the knowledge, so I do not think it is important to open a Facebook account in the future as well,” he said.

“My parents, relatives and friends felt good and wished me for the future; I was expecting good percentage but felt much happy after bagging the firs position,” he said.

He attributes the credit of his success to his teachers and his hard work.

“I used to study 5 to 6 hours a day and my hard work finally brought laurels to me. I am also thankful to my teachers, family members for their guidance and support as well,” he said.

Atif said that in future he will like to go for the research part of the academics in the science stream. “I think science is a vast stream and my aim is to do research in the future,” he said.

“I don’t underestimate Arts and Commerce streams but I personally feel much comfortable in medical stream,” he added.

Without making a particular suggestion he said students should prepare the way they would be comfortable.

According to Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education official, 49956 students appeared in the examination out of which 29460 were declared as qualified recording a successful percentage of 59 percent, which is three percent higher than previous regular result.

There are 146 candidates from all the four streams within the ambit of first ten positions.

In the Science stream, 20 students shared the first three positions while as five students shared first three positions in Commerce.

From Home Science stream, six students shared the first three positions and in Humanities, three students bagged first three positions.

Atif Jan of Tyndale Biscoe, Srinagar secured first position in Science stream securing 98 per cent marks. From the Commerce stream, Saba Tariq of Muslim Educational Institute, Pampore bagged first position with 97.4 per cent marks. Arjumand Qadir Kala of Higher Secondary School, Baramulla topped Arts stream with 97.8 per cent marks. Faculty of Home Science was topped by Samieyah Banday of Govt. Girls Higher Secondary School, Kothibagh, Srinagar with 87 per cent marks.

[Rising Kashmir]