Lucknow, 19 December : Aadya Tripathi, a student of City Montessori School, Mahanagar campus created history by securing marks in the 99th percentile internationally in PSAT exam administered by the College Board, USA. Four other CMS students, Kunwar Utkarsh and Prateek Raj from Kanpur Road campus, Shatakshi Raj from Rajajipuram Campus I and Iba Shaheen from Mahanagar campus secured marks in the 98th percentile, bringing laurels to the institution. More than 25 lakhs students took the PSAT exam globally. The PSAT offers students an excellent, and cost-effective way to practice for the SAT; it assesses the same skills as the SAT, but in a grade appropriate way. PSAT is offered once in a year globally. The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test is a standardized test administered by the College Board and cosponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation in the United States.

               It may be mentioned here that each year, a large number of CMS students are offered admission to top best universities of the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, and Germany like Cambridge University, California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, Cornell University, Melbourne University, National University of Singapore, etc. Also, CMS by becoming a SAT exam centre, providing the bright students not only of CMS, but of Lucknow, the opportunity to showcase their academic prowess, and to get admissions in some of the top ranked universities of the world, often with 100% scholarship.