Aditya Amardeep Patil, a commerce student from Shantiniketan Junior College in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, topped the Standard XII CBSE exams with an impressive score of 97%. Following him were fellow commerce students Swaroop Sanjay Kadam, who scored 96%, and Chavi Kamal Mittal, who achieved 95.6%. Aditya, who has aspirations to become a Chartered Accountant, previously excelled in his Standard X exams. He mentioned that he had focused solely on his studies for the past two years, having stopped playing cricket to concentrate on his academic goals. In addition to the commerce stream, Anisha Kishan Poptani led the science students with a score of 92.4%, while Aarya Abhijit Deshpande and Sana Maria Santosh scored 91.2% and 90.2%, respectively. The Arts stream saw Yasholaxmi Bharatveersingh Deora achieving 90.2%, with Diya Ravi Ahuja and Medha Rajesh Latkar following with 89.6% and 88.2%. Jayashri Jadhav, the principal of the college, attributed the students' success to the personal attention provided by the teachers.