India, May 1 -- Lucknow's Saanvi Agarwal scores 98.2% despite losing all study material to fire

Rajeev Mullick

rajeev.mullick@htlive.com

Lucknow

Saanvi Agarwal's path to scoring an outstanding 98.2% in her ICSE exams was one paved with immense personal crisis. Just weeks before her pre-board examinations in October 2025, a devastating fire broke out in her family's house in Lucknow, reducing her entire study area, including all textbooks, notes and preparation material, to ashes.

Saanvi, a student of Seth MR Jaipuria School, was preparing for her computer pre-board exam on the morning of the incident. "It was 5:30 am, and I was studying for my pre-board when a split AC blast led to the fire," she recalled. The blaze quickly spread du...