Udaipur boy tops JEE-Main, becomes first to score 100 per cent
April 27, 2017 22:22
Kalpit Veerval, hailing from Udaipur in Rajasthan, has become the first candidate to score a perfect 100 per cent score in the Joint Entrance Examination-Main, results of which were announced today.
Out of the over 11.8 lakh students who appeared for the examination for admission to various IITs and engineering colleges, around 2.2 lakhs have qualified for the second and final round -- the JEE (Advanced).
Kalpit, who has scored 360 out of 360 in the JEE-Main, had earlier topped the Indian Junior Science Olympiad and the National Talent Search Examination.
The second and third ranks were bagged by Vasu Jain and Ananye Agarwal from Delhi respectively.
Vrunda Nandkumar Rathi came first among girls with a score of 321. Her overall rank was 71.
Boys have outshined girls in bagging the top thousand ranks. There were 932 boys in the top 1,000 list. Similarly, 4,534 of the top 5,000 rank holders were boys.
The second and third positions among girls were bagged by Poorva Garg (Score:319, Overall rank: 96) and Narayana Jeevana Reddy (Score: 318, Overall rank: 102).
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