Bathinda girl secures eighth rank in NEET

Nikhila Pant Dhawan

Advertisement

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, June 23

Bringing laurels to the city and her alma mater, Nikita Goyal of Bathinda secured the all-India rank 8 in NEET, the results of which were announced this morning. She stood at the second position in Punjab.

Speaking to The Tribune, Nitika said she had taken this exam as a challenge and that’s how she had managed to score well. Daughter of Government Polytechnic College faculty member Rani Devi and ADO Rakesh Goyal, Nitika studied at Sanawar School and took coaching from the Magnet Institute in Bathinda to prepare for the examination.

Nitika said she wants to become a neurosurgeon. “When I was in Class X, I suffered from some neuro disorder for which I underwent a long treatment. Due to the medication, I experienced swelling around my eyes. When I fully recovered from the problem, I decided that I would become a neurologist,” she said.

There was another driving force which brought out the best in Nitika. Her elder brother Nikhil had secured all-India rank 142 in NEET but when she joined the coaching institute, faculty members compared her with her brother and said she was not as brilliant as her brother. “I took the comparison to heart and took the exam as a challenge. The challenge worked well for me and now my brother is also proud of me,” she said and added that she had secured rank 95 in AIIMS entrance exam.