
Chirag Falor -- who secured AIR 1 in JEE Advanced -- is already studying at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA but appeared for the JEE Advanced for the “experience” of it, he had told indianexpress.com. He believes that the IIT entrance is tougher than that of MIT.
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Kanishka Mittal from Uttar Pradesh has topped the JEE Advanced 2020 in the female category. She has got an all India rank 17 with 315 marks out of 396. She has been preparing for the IIT entrance for the past two years and has shifted to Kota, Rajasthan for the same.
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AIR 4 R Muhender Raj is pursuing BTech Computer Science online from the University of California, Los Angeles. “I will try for MIT next year,” he said.
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Haryana’s Harshvardhan Agarwal — who got All India Rank 9 in JEE Advanced — had won a silver medal in last year’s Internal Physical Olympiad. Agarwal too started his preparation from class 9 onwards. NCERTs make for the basis of JEE Main and Advanced.
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Vaibhav Raj from Bihar has secured All India Rank 3 in JEE Advanced 2020. Regarding his preparation strategy, Vaibhav said, "I had prepared following a strategy. I made a list of all chapters, and studied them following a schedule."
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