Proving their mettle once again students from various schools across Jharkhand have excelled in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains 2020, the results of which were declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday on its official website jeemain.nta.nic.in. Ranchi boy Dayal Kumar of class XII from Delhi Public School, scored 99.99 percentile and became the State topper.
As many as 126 students of DPS Ranchi have qualified in the JEE Mains September 2020 examination. Out of these 16 have secured above 99 percentile and 10 above 98 percentile. Akshar Kumar scored 99.98 percentile while Abhijeet Singh scored 99.88 percentile.
Principal Ram Singh congratulated the students for their hard work and appreciated the efforts of the teachers and parents for preparing the students for greater challenges.
From Sarla Birla Public School, Ranchi Pranjal Pratyush, Pranjal Singh Katiyar, Abhishek Anand, Aniket Keshri, Kumar Harshwardhan and Bishal Dutta have also cleared the JEE Mains 2020 thereby qualifying for JEE Advanced.
School Head Personnel and Admin Pradip Varma congratulated the students and wished them good luck for their future. Principal Paramjit Kaur said that it is because of the hard work of the students, parents and the teachers that the school continues to script such success stories.
About 500 engineering aspirants from Jamshedpur have also qualified to appear for JEE Advanced. Supriti Kumari who is the daughter of an assistant manager at Tata Steel and a student of Rajendra Vidhyalaya, Sakchi wants to pursue engineering from IIT has scored a national rank of 369.
Vinayak Srivastava achieved 732nd rank while Rohan Das with 99.922 percentile has scored 958th rank.
Meanwhile, Shyam Bhushan, Director, Jamshedpur Center, Narayana said that the results of JEE (Main) -2020, a total of 243 students have achieved success so far for Advanced. In addition, a total of 81 students have secured the rank of All India rank fifty thousand under JEE (Main).
The Joint Entrance Examination –Main is conducted twice a year for admission to engineering colleges across the country. NTA had conducted the JEE Main 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic from September 1 to September 6. Students who have cleared the JEE Mains will now be eligible to appear for the JEE- Advanced exam which is a one- stop exam for admission to the premier Indian Institutes of Technology.