This Mumbai Teen Becomes City, State Girl topper in JEE Advanced examination

Master Utkarsh Pant from Mumbai has scored Rank 1 in JEE Advanced examination in Navi Mumbai city, with All India Rank 45 (AIR 45).

He is a student of FIITJEE Mumbai since class 9, Utkarsh says that faculty of FIITJEE Mumbai helped him to realise his full potential through a structured program focused on building and developing clarity on specific nuance and concepts. There were regular workshops, testing and continuous mentoring. He dreamt, and now aspires to pursue computer science from IIT Bombay. Some of the hobbies include Badminton and origami art. His advice to aspiring students is to focus on clearing the concepts, practice yoga and be prepared for any surprise on the examination day by appearing for multiple simulation test.

Meanwhile, Jahnabi Roy is Mumbai girl topper in JEE Advanced examination with All India Rank 385 (AIR 385). Jahnabi was the JEE Mains Maharashtra Girl Topper as well.

She is also a student of FIITJEE Mumbai since class 9, she was enrolled as part of four-year classroom program and week-end contact classes. She aspires to pursue computer science from IIT Bombay. 

Besides, Riddhi Agarwal is Thane City Girl Topper with All India Rank (AIR) 544. Riddhi is a student of FIITJEE Mumbai since class 11. Riddhi says that support from her parents and faculty at FIITJEE Mumbai helped her to excel in the exams. She aspires to pursue Computer Science from IIT Bombay. Her advice to aspiring students is to prepare for the exams with consistency and dedication.

It is pertinent to note that as large number of students scored fewer marks as compared to earlier years, resulting in a dip in the cut-off marks for the JEE advanced exams. Last year AIR topper was 340 out of 360 while this year it is 314/360 for the AIR topper, so there is a dip of around 8 percent vis a vis last year.

Some of the reasons for the dip in performance of students in this year includes Multiple exams for students at the same time putting additional pressure, delay in examination schedule resulting in less synchronised preparation calendar for the aspirants, Format of examination viz students finding it the paper lengthier, poor logistics where students faced considerable problems in handling the interface & hardware at Examination centre, lack of social bonding with other students resulting in limited focus for students that is supplemental in harnessing all round development.