CBSE Reading Challenge

Date: December 21, 2023

The junior and senior teams of the school emerged as national winners as well as toppers of the Noida region in the CBSE Reading Challenge held online in the month of October in both English and Hindi. Winners in the junior category were Tannishtha Gupta (Class VI), Shashwat Jain (Class VI), Naisha Das (Class VII) and Shreeya Gunupur (Class VI) while in the senior category, Mishel Agarwal and Riddhi Singh (Class X), Shubhi Gupta (Class IX), and Charvi Agarwal (Class VIII) bagged the laurels.  During the challenge, they read a diverse range of texts with accuracy and had to also construct meaning, draw inferences, and reflect upon the given material. There were passages on King Ashoka, endangered animals, nature conservation, and a particularly challenging passage was the case study on urban lifestyle and its varied repercussions.