Two CFAL students top Karnataka 2nd PUC 2026 State Rank 1 and Joint Second in the State

Karnataka State Rank 1 · State Rank 2 · 100% Pass · 82.6% in Distinction

CFAL, a science school and college established in Mangaluru in 2004, has recorded one of the most significant II PUC performances in Karnataka for 2025–26. Princilla Cardoza of CFAL is the sole State Rank 1 holder in Karnataka — the only student in the state to score 599 out of 600. Meenakshi Unnithan, also of CFAL, secured 598 out of 600, placing her among the twelve students who share State Rank 2 across Karnataka.

Every one of the 282 students who appeared passed. Of those, 238 (82.6%)— secured distinction. The mean score across the batch was 543 out of 600, with eight students scoring above 590 and 139 subject centum recorded in total.

A student does not have to choose between deep understanding and strong exam performance. When learning is rigorous and honest, both grow together.  CFAL Director, Vijay Moras

CFAL’s method is built on one conviction: that a student who truly understands a subject,  who has worked through the problem, not around it, does not need to be separately coached for each examination format. The institute prepares students for strong conceptual understanding. The demands of JEE, NEET, and KCET are met through integrated teaching, sustained problem-solving, and a culture of academic rigour.  No preparation strategy needs to be fragmented. The understanding does the work across every examination a student faces.

What these results also reflect is the kind of learner CFAL enables: not a student trained narrowly for a single outcome, but one who has developed the capacity to handle difficulty, stay with a problem, and perform consistently
across different examination contexts. Board marks, in this sense, are not the achievement. They are the evidence of something more important, an academic clarity that translates wherever it is tested.

The state topper, Princilla Cardoza, secured 599 out of 600, achieving full marks in five of her six subjects.  State second rank holder, with 598 out of 600, is Meenakshi Unnithan,  also from CFAL. Twelve students across Karnataka share Joint State Rank 2 with a score of 598 out of 600. Both are Science stream students who were simultaneously preparing for competitive entrance examinations at the time of their board papers. Their results came from the same understanding that CFAL builds every day.

For parents considering CFAL for their child, the practical meaning of these results is direct. A student at CFAL does not receive narrowly targeted coaching. They receive an education that builds genuine understanding — one that is rigorous enough to prepare them for India’s most competitive entrance examinations, and deep enough that it translates into exceptional board performance as well. When the teaching is serious and the learning is real, students do not need to be prepared separately for each arena. They are prepared for all of them at once.

ABOUT THE LEARNING CENTRE TRUST

CFAL is a unit of The Learning Centre Trust, Mangaluru  an educational trust that oversees learning at every stage of a child’s life. The Trust also runs the Early Learning Centre (ELC), a Montessori-based kindergarten; The Learning Centre School, for Grades 1 through 10; and the CFAL Research Centre, which conducts environmental, citizen science and research programmes. Across all its institutions, The Learning Centre Trust holds one conviction: that genuine understanding, built carefully and honestly from the earliest years, is the foundation of everything that follows.