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Odisha’s Swayam Shakti Tripathy has secured All India Rank (AIR 8) by scoring 99.9 percentile in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) UG results of which were announced on Tuesday. Swayam, a student of SAI International School, here secured 715 marks.
Stating that the results are as per his expectation, Swayam said he used to prepare for 12 to 13 hours a day for the NEET. He followed the NCERT books and materials as part of his preparation for the medical entrance test. He has been focussing on NEET UG coaching since class 11.
“I was confident enough to clear the NEET with top ranks as I had worked very hard for the past two years for the entrance examination. The support and inspiration of my family members, encouragement by the teachers at my school and well-planned coaching helped me a lot in my preparation,” said Swayam, whose father works as a professor in electrical engineering at Odisha University of Technology and Research. His mother is a housewife.
Swayam said he has planned to pursue MBBS at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and to pursue post-graduate in surgery. He has bagged 98.6% in his class 12, results of which was announced on May 12.
