After Playing Keyboard, Scoring High, Nishok 'Mad About Developing Apps'

CHENNAI: How often do you find a school topper wanting to take up music as a profession? Meet S Nishok Kumar, the all-India third rankholder in the CBSE board exams from DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Mugappair, who loves playing the keyboard. “Becoming a musician is one of the career options I have in mind,” the science student, who scored 99 per cent in physics, chemistry and maths, 97 in English and 100 in computer science, says, with a smile. However, his other career option is intriguing as the previous one. “App developer,” he says, adding: “That’s what I am mad about.”

Ask this 18-year-old if he expected to top at the national-level and he answers in the negative. “I never had anything in mind while studying. I put in as much effort as I could but never expected anything in return. I just gave my best,” he says. While Nishok otherwise studied for over six hours every day, he put in 10  hours of effort a day ahead of exams.

“My break fillers used to be playing the keyboard, reading novels and just watching television,” he says, adding that if he is going to watch the TV it’s Masterchef Australia he would be tuning into.

Nishok has completed eighth grade in electronic keyboard from the Trinity College of London and wishes to delve into music soon after getting himself enrolled for a B Tech course in computer science. He is also fond of hanging out with friends and family.

“Weekend outings with family to beaches and with friends to parks were quite the norm even when the preparatory holidays were on,” he discloses. All that apart, Nishok candidly admits that he hadn’t imagined to get the score he actually got. “494… That was not even in my imagination!” he winds up, with a laugh.

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