JEE-Main results: Farmer’s son among 3 from Maharashtra who scored 100 percentile

Aryan prepared for JEE at the Narayana Junior College in Andheri. The family, which originally lived in Goregaon, shifted to Andheri to make commute easier for Aryan during his preparation. According to Aryan, apart from academics and discipline, time-management is equally important.

A farmer’s son from Belkhedh village of Washim district, Neelkrishna will be a first generation higher-education student from his family. “He has always been studious and more importantly curious about machines. Opening devices at home to see how it works and his attempts to repair those were play-time activities for him. He was determined to study engineering and we decided to help him in whichever way possible,” said Yogita, Neelkrishna’s mother who shifted to Nagpur with her son who studied at the Allen Career Institute.

The mother-son duo has been living away from their family for two years now. Both his parents studied till Class 12. “But we want our children to study and have big aspirations,” said Yogita, adding that her daughter, younger to Neelkrishna, is in class 10 now and is looking forward to pursuing Chartered Accountancy (CA).

Another student from Allen Career Institute, Dakshesh Mishra from Navi Mumbai, shared how studying for 10-12 hours daily and focusing on solving question papers strengthened his confidence. Son of a working-class couple from the city, his father is an engineer and mother works in the telecom sector.

All three aspire to join the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay’s Computer Science Engineering (CSE) branch. Even as they have already scored 100 percentile, three of them plan to appear for the next session in April; their focus has already shifted to preparation for the JEE -Advanced and entrance test for IIT admissions.

A total of 12,21,624 candidates registered for session 1 of the JEE – Main exam, which is the entrance test for non-IIT engineering admissions in the country. It is also the qualifying step for those willing to appear for JEE – Advanced which determines admission to the IITs. A total of 11,70,048 candidates actually appeared for this computer-based-exam held between January 27 to February 1 at various exam centres. The second session of the JEE-Main will be held in April.