Janjivan Bureau / Chandigarh : Sarvesh Mehtani from Haryana’s Panchkula secured the All India Rank (AIR) 1 in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2017, the results of which were declared on Sunday. Pune’s Akshat Chugh was in second position and Delhi’s Ananye Agarwal was placed third in the prestigious advanced entrance exam to the Indian Institutes of Technology.
Mehtani is from the IIT Roorkee zone, Chugh is from the IIT Bombay zone and Agarwal if from the IIT-Delhi zone.
A student of Bhavan Vidyalaya School, Mehtani secured an AIR rank of 55 in JEE (Main) this year. Mehtani said he was motivated to take the exam as he wanted to study in one of the top engineering colleges in the country.
He now wants to go to IIT-Bombay to pursue a course in computer science.
Rachit Bansal of Chandigarh secured the AIR 9 in JEE Advanced. Like Mehtani, Bansal too wants to join IIT- Bombay to pursue computer science.
The performance of a candidate in JEE (Advanced) forms the basis for admission to the bachelor’s, integrated master’s and dual degree programs (entry at the 10+2 level) in all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad.
Of those students placed in the top 100 ranks, 29 were from the IIT Madras zone, 26 from the IIT Delhi zone, 25 from the IIT Bombay zone and six from the IIT Kanpur zone.
Debaditya Pramanik from Kolkata emerged as the topper in the eastern region with an All India Rank of 38.
Suraj Yadav from Haryana’s Mahendragarh is the All India 5th rank holder. Rachit Bansal of Chandigarh has secured 9th AIR in JEE Advanced.
As many as 1.74 lakh students registered for JEE (Advanced) this year. Of them, 500 were foreign candidates, because the IITs for the first time ever held the test in six other countries as well. The total number of students who qualified in the test will be released by the IITs shortly.
This year’s test’s high scorers will be competing for close to 11,000 seats in 23 IITs. IIT Madras, which organised this year’s test on May 21, gave away 11 bonus marks to those students who answered three ‘ambiguous’ questions. Two of those questions were in the mathematics section and the third was in the physics section.
