Mumbai: Despite losing her right arm, a 15-year-old achieves 92 percent on the ICSE exam

Anamta Ahmed, a 15-year-old Mumbai native, received 92 percent of the possible points in five subjects on the ICSE Board Exam 2024, despite losing her right arm after a severe shock and burns two years before. Learn about her experience.

She was playing with her relatives when she touched an 11KV cable two years ago, which resulted in the loss of her right arm. Her left arm was barely usable, and her right arm had been amputated.

Anamta Ahmed achieved the highest grade of 98 percent in the Hindi subject at her school. When the results were announced, her school, City International School in Andheri, Mumbai, rejoiced.

She was always a great student, but anybody would have fallen into melancholy after what she had gone through, her principal told TOI. She said that her optimism kept her going in spite of the suffering.

Anamta told TOI that while physicians advised her to take a year and a half off from school, she was not ready to do so since she did not want to be at home and her school encouraged her. She went on to say that she wasn’t accustomed to writing with her left arm, so that was the hardest issue.

Anamta’s teachers finally encouraged her to maintain a writing habit and to focus on her examinations after a few months.

The results of the ICSE Board were released at 11 AM on May 6. 99.47 percent was the reported total pass percentage. 2,43,617 pupils in all appeared, and 2,42,328 of them passed.