The wait for LKG Interview results at SBOA School and Junior College

The Interview for LKG at SBOA School and Junior College, (Anna Nagar Western Extension, Chennai; affiliated to CBSE) was over on the 31st of Jan 2009.

The wait for the results feels pretty long and it's frankly hard to just sit around and do nothing.

I would prefer the results to be announced on the same day, but I also understand the difficulty in screening more than a thousand applications for limited seats.

So here I am counting the days before the result is known.............

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