Rohtak, May 18 -- The Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) declared the Class 10 results on Saturday. As many as four students - Rohit from Hisar, Mahi from Ambala, and Roma and Taniya from Jhajjar - topped the Haryana Class 10 board exams with 497 out of 500 marks.

Taniya credited her success to her parents and teachers. "There was no fixed timetable. I studied whenever I got time. My father is a shopkeeper and my mother is a homemaker. I never thought I'd top the state," she said.

Roma Nehra, another topper, said her father is a farmer and her mother a homemaker. "I want to clear the NDA exam and become an officer. I studied five hours a day," she said.

Board chairman Professor Pawan Kumar said a total of 2.71 lakh students appea...