coimbatore beating the that meritorious students tend to opt stream and take up engineering or all the district toppers were from stream this year this year the three district toppers first ranker sumithra k second rank holder monisha n and third nandhini s opted for commerce despite being offered in class 11 with the aim to chartered accountants i was just not interested in but wanted to pursue distinct profession since my father was a lawyer i to pursue chartered accountancy s who scored 1188 out of sumithra k said that commerce would give more opportunities to be creative i am a creative person who has hobbies and passions like painting and enjoy things which why my father advised me to for chartered accountancy said sumithra since i am going to study b com can do different things my career she says seems like the days opted for a stream it was considered worthy are gone i did nt like physics or chemistry i interacted my father s friend who is an auditor and i realised i enjoy what he does so i to become one too said monisha my parents not highly supported my decision correspondents say and parents towards commerce has been changing last three to years now seats in the commerce stream are filled faster says srihari natrajhan secretary of ramaswamy matriculation school we see lot of good students for commerce they to do an mba more aware of the careers can have in management and consulting he said parents mindsets have changing in the last three to four years the education department seems to giving the stream a lot more attention when it comes to setting papers and lenient teachers are now being told to give full for long answer questions it perfect said natrajhan