Gujarat girl runner-up in arithmetic contest

Updated on: Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Payal Merja, a 7th standard girl student from Gujarat, has won the runner up trophy at a mental arithmetic competition in Malaysia, it was announced on  Monday, December 6.

Payal, 11, a student of Bavis Gram Vidyalaya in Vallabh Vidyanagar in central Gujarat, was among 5,000 students in the age group of 4 to 12 from 42 countries who took part in the contest.

"Gujarat is proud that little Payal has won laurels in the Higher-A Category. She solved 161 sums in eight minutes, losing first rank by just one mark," an official said.

The winner was a boy from Saudi Arabia.

Payal can solve around 200 sums in eight minutes without a calculator or any electronic device, the statement said.

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