By Mukesh 
Teachers encouraged me, and my parents pushed me, which enabled me to score full marks, said Class 10 student Preetham G. Poojary of Udupi district, after SSLC examination-1 results were announced on April 23.
A student of Mother Theresa Memorial School in Shankaranarayana of Kundapura Taluk, Preetham is the eldest of the two children of Ganapathy Poojary, a private bus conductor on the Udupi-Mandarthi-Hebri route. His mother, Nagaratna, is a home maker.