JEE Main 2022 Session 1 Result: Punjab boy Mrinal Garg scores 300/300; says staying off social media helped

He credits his elder brother Bhartesh Garg and his teachers -- both at school and coaching academy -- for his success. NTA announced JEE Main result today morning.

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JEE Main 2022: Meet Punjab topper Mrinal Garg. (Graphic: Angshuman Maity)

In the JEE Main 2022 Session 1 results declared today, Punjab’s Mrinal Garg has secured the top rank by getting a perfect score of 300/300. Hailing from Bathinda, Mrinal’s father Charanjeet Garg is a businessman and his mother Rinu Bala is a homemaker.

He credits his elder brother and his teachers — both at school and coaching academy — for his success. “My elder brother Bhartesh Garg is an MBBS student at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Jodhpur. Seeing him study diligently, I was also inclined towards studying science. He has always been an inspiration. My teachers at school and academy have also played an equal part in my success,” said Mrinal, who is a product of St Kabir Convent School, Bathinda and also took coaching from Sri Chaitanya Academy, Chandigarh to prepare for the competitive exams.

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His mother Rinu Bala said that seeing his brother study and prepare for medical studies made Mrinal focus on science. “He now wants to pursue computer science engineering at IIT-Bombay,” she said. “It was during Covid that he started preparing for JEE and studies were mainly through online classes during the pandemic. He also did a lot of self-study,” said the mother.

Garg told The Indian Express that he did not use any social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter etc. And WhatsApp was used just to stay updated on his classes via study groups.

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The family lives in the Minocha Colony of Bathinda and Mrinal’s father deals in surgical equipment.

“He is still at the academy and now focusing on preparing for JEE advanced. He was elated after the results today,” said the mother, adding that apart from studies, Mrinal loves playing guitar and playing cricket.

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In the JEE Main session I, 14 students scored 100 percentile of which only one (Sneha Pareek) is a girl student.

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More