JEE Main: Gurugram Twins Ace The Exam With 100 And 99.65 Per Cent NTA Scores
It was a double delight for a family in Gurugram, Haryana when the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mani on Wednesday. Gurugram twins Aarav Bhatt and Arush Bhatt cleared the Entrance Exam in flying?colours.Aarav was one of the 56 candidates who scored 100 percentile marks, and bagged the third rank nationwide.
Skipped JEE?April session
?His twin brother Aarush followed closely behind with 99.65 percentile and?Rank?5660.?Incidentally, the 19-year-olds only appeared for the January 2024 session and decided not to reappear for the April session and started preparing for the mains scheduled for May 26.
¡°My focus has always been JEE Advanced, and since I got 100 percentile in session 1, I decided to skip the April session. Advance is the ultimate goal that will help me achieve my dream," Aarav said.
Bothers to pursue engineering and mathematics?
The twins also want to follow in the footsteps of their parents and Aarav, like his father is hoping to pursue engineering. Aarush on the other hand has set his eyes on Mathematics, like his mother, and dreams of becoming a professor at IIT one day.
The twins said they started preparing for JEE from Class XI and used to start their day at 5 am.
JEE Main results
According to the JEE-Main results announced on Wednesday night 56 candidates achieved 100 NTA scores.
The qualifying percentile for?JEE?(Advanced), the entrance test for admission to the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), touched a five-year high.
While 23 candidates in the?JEE?(Main) January session scored 100 NTA score, 33 candidates in the April session achieved it.
Of the 14.1 lakh candidates, almost 96?per cent?of the aspirants took the test for undergraduate admissions to engineering and architecture?programmes?in centrally-funded technical institutions as well to qualify to appear for?JEE?(Advanced). There are around 24,000 seats across?National?Institutes of Technology (NITs).
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