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JEE Main: Chandigarh boy who once represented India in International Mathematical Olympiad gets 100 percentile

Vedant Saini, the JEE Main topper in Chandigarh, was among the youngest members of the six-member Indian team that won the bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2022.

In 2022, Saini was among the youngest members of the six-member Indian team that won the bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Norway.In 2022, Saini was among the youngest members of the six-member Indian team that won the bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Norway.

Vedant Saini, a 17-year-old student of Bhavan Vidyalaya Chandigarh, has cracked the JEE Main by scoring 100 percentile and emerged as the topper in Chandigarh. The JEE Main results were declared on Wednesday night.

Saini’s father Dr Shiv Sajan Saini, an associate professor at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, told The Indian Express, “From the very beginning, Vedant has been a very hardworking child. We are a family of doctors and he will be the first engineer in our family.” Saini’s mother Vidhushi Mahajan is a paediatrician at Government Medical College & Hospital, Sector 32.

Saini wants to pursue Computer Science, his father said.

In 2022, Saini was among the youngest members of the six-member Indian team that won the bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Norway.

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“Vedant Saini of BVC has made us and the country proud by bagging Bronze Medal at the 63rd International Mathematics Olympiad held at Oslo, Norway. He was a part of the Indian team comprising 6 students,” the school had posted on social media in 2022.

Saini had also been invited to the Parliament House by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs on December 2 and 3 to be a part of the celebrations on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the first President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad.

He was earlier also selected for the acclaimed Asia Pacific Maths Olympiad 2022 from the northwest region.

Hina Rohtaki is a Special Correspondent with The Indian Express, Chandigarh. She covers Chandigarh administration and other cross beats. In this field for over a decade now, she has also received the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award by the President of India in January 2020. She tweets @HinaRohtaki ... Read More

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