Six students from Gujarat, including state topper Jatsya Jariwala with an All India Rank (AIR) of 24, broke into the top 100 ranks in the JEE Advanced results announced Sunday. While three aspirants are from Ahmedabad, one each is from Gandhinagar, Rajkot and Surat. Kaushal Vijayvargiya and Harshul Suthar — both from Ahmedabad — secured AIR 44 and 46 respectively. They scored an overall 100 percentile in JEE-Mains — the January session of the engineering entrance exam conducted by the National Testing Agency. Kunj Bhesaniya, who secured AIR 49, is from Ahmedabad, while Samarth Patel from Gandhinagar was ranked 77. Deepen Sojitra from Rajkot secured AIR 63. A Surat resident, Jariwala secured the fourth rank in the Mumbai zone. He had secured 164th rank in JEE Mains. Son of a businessman father and a music teacher mother, Jariwala scored 94.8 per cent in Class 12 CBSE board exams. A student of Scholar Academy School in Surat, he got 93.2 per cent in Class 10 CBSE results. "I was not satisfied with the score of JEE Mains and had worked hard for days and nights. I am satisfied with the result. I never lost hope and with the support of my teachers and their advice, I put in all my efforts. I practiced solving old exam papers. I want to study in IIT and make my career in computer software engineering," Jariwala told The Indian Express. Jariwala secured 97 marks in Mathematics, 107 in chemistry and 105 in Physics. Success comes through regular hard work, said 17-year-old Vijayvargiya who scored a perfect 300 out of 300 in the JEE Mains January session. Preparing for his Class 12 exams, Vijayvargiya who secured 98.8 per cent of the marks in Class 10, said, "My elder brother Anshul is an IITian and he is the one who inspired me. The more doubts I cleared, the stronger my grip on the subject became. I studied for 10–12 hours daily.” His parents are both qualified engineers. His father Kiran works as senior manager at a public sector bank, while his mother Madhubala, an electronics engineer, gave up her job in 2008 after Kaushal was born. “Although my family hails from Biaora, Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, we keep changing cities due to my father's bank job. Currently, I am in Ahmedabad. My elder brother, who completed his BTech from IIT Kanpur, is now pursuing his MTech in computer technology at IIT Delhi," he said. He is confident he'd get through the Computer Science branch at IIT Bombay. “We wanted our elder son to get into IIT Bombay, too, but he could not. Now, Kaushal has fulfilled our dream,” his parents, who were elated about the results, told this newspaper. In JEE Mains, while Vijayvargiya got full marks in all three subjects, Suthar scored a 100 percentile in Mathematics and Physics. From Ahmedabad, eight students scored 100 percentile in Physics, four in Mathematics, and two in Chemistry. He (who?) had also cleared the first stage of Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy Olympiads in 2022, and the first stage of Physics in 2021 and Math Olympiad in 2020. Suthar is the son of Sanjaybhai Suthar, a deputy city engineer at Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. He scored 302 marks and hopes to get admission in the Computer Science branch at IIT Bombay. “Since the last six months, we were confident that he would do well. After his Mains result in which he got 100 percentile and a rank of 17, the confidence doubled. His dream is our dream and we do not have any issues in sending him to IIT Bombay,” said his parents Sanjay and Varsha Suthar. Suthar said the pandemic years did not have much impact on his studies. "Despite online classes and mass promotion in Class 10, it did not affect my studies much. I study till when I can, cover topics that interest me while not neglecting those I am weak in by clearing all my doubts. I started preparing for JEE Mains a month before from the NCERT curriculum," he said. Bhesaniya (AIR 49), who scored 301 marks, hails from Visavadar in Junagadh and has been in Ahmedabad since the past two years preparing for the JEE exams. He too aims to get into the Computer Science branch at IIT Bombay. An only child, his father Chimanlal is the principal at a government high school in Visavadar and his mother a home-maker. Bhesaniya said he would note down all his mistakes in a diary and stress more on those. “While preparing, I would make a list of all the mistakes I had made and focus more on them. Also, I have a habit of noting down the daily target for the next day in a diary the previous night. This disciplined my studies and practice,” he said. Gandhinagar resident Samarth Patel (AIR 77) is the odd one out — his three family members are from the medical field. His father Bhagyesh is a surgeon, while mother is a general physician — both practising in Gandhinagar. His elder sister Krupali is a third-year student at GMERS Medical College Gandhinagar. “My parents wanted me to get into the medical field. In Class 9, I had come to Ahmedabad for NEET coaching. But it was after coming here, I realised I have an inclination towards Maths and did well in the subject,” he said. When asked about his parents’ reaction to his decision, he said, “My parents were fine with this decision as long as I performed well". Like other toppers, he, too, aims to get enrolled at IIT Bombay in the Computer Science branch.
