Correct Answer: Megha said, "I took the shortcut to my college."

Solution : The correct answer is the third option.

Direct speech is a form of speech or writing where the actual words spoken by a person are quoted within quotation marks and attributed to the speaker.

Narration Conversion:

• The past perfect tense "had taken" is changed to the simple past tense "took".
• The third pronoun "she" is changed to the first-person pronoun "I" and third person pronoun "her" is changed to the first-person pronoun "my".
• The direct words of the speaker are enclosed in inverted commas.

Therefore, the correct answer is: Megha said, "I took the shortcut to my college."