Jalandhar lad scores 99.97 percentile in JEE Main

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 10

Aum Gupta, a Class X student of Police DAV Public School, achieved the highest percentile (99.9796) in JEE Main in the very first attempt. He does not intend to go in for subsequent chances and wants to focus on JEE (Advanced) so that he meets his aim to qualify for BTech in computer sciences at IIT, Mumbai.

He said he initially thought that the lockdown imposed in the wake of the Covid-19 would hamper his studies as he could not attend regular classes and coaching throughout the year. “I did coaching from a Chandigarh-based centre and everything went online from home, including mock tests. I was not sure if I will be able to maintain my pace and level of understanding, but thankfully, it all went very smoothly. I used to attend online classes for five hours and do self-study for another five hours daily,” he said.

Gupta added, “My parents have been a great support. My father who teaches maths at Lovely Professional University was a great support and helped me clear all my doubts in the subject. My mother is a teacher at my school and takes commerce classes. She too helped me arrange all the required study material at home.”

Having scored 96.8 per cent in Class X, Gupta had a brilliant academic record and has various other achievements to his credit. He had cleared level 2 of National Talent Search Examination last year to be eligible for the scholarship.

A resident of Basti Sheikh, he has also cleared Kishore Vigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KYPY) exam. In Class IX, he had bagged top position across India in Maths Olympiad.

From Apeejay School, Vidhu Arora got 99.59 percentile, Rajveer Singh got 99.4 percentile, Satyam Sharma scored 95.713 percentile and Shreya Thakur got 92.64 percentile. Students of St Soldier Group of Institutions have also performed well in the JEE Main. Chairman Anil Chopra said Tejas Budhwal scored 98.5 percentile, Joy got 97.5 percentile, Dipesh Rana got 95.01 percentile and Adesh Paswan got 93.76 percentile.

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