LUCKNOW: With an All India Rank 28, 18-year-old Aaveg Jain from Noida emerged as the UP topper in the JEE Advanced, results of which were declared on Friday. He, however, belongs to the IIT-Delhi zone.
A student of Somerville School, Noida, Aaveg scored 308 marks out of 360. He said, “I was expecting a good rank based on the score but was surprised to see a better one.” Aaveg is set to take up computer sciences from either IIT-Bombay or IIT-Delhi.
According to Aaveg’s father Ashu Jain, an engineer working in a private firm, the result is an outcome of hardwork of several years.
“He (Aaveg) has sacrificed a lot. He followed a fixed schedule and spent very less time on outings. He has been determined to crack IITs,” Ashu said. Aaveg’s mother is a homemaker.
Coordinator from IIT-Kanpur for JEE Advanced, Prof Dhirendra Katti confirmed the top five rankers — Yash Virani (AIR 37) and Utkarsh Singh (AIR 84), Malik Hammad Faisal (AIR 87), Atishay Jain (AIR 104) and Kushagra Gupta (AIR 109) — from IIT-Kanpur zone. However, Yash, Utkarsh and Atishay belong to MP, while the other two hail from UP.
Lucknow girl Shreya Tiwari (AIR 279) is the girl topper from IIT-Kanpur zone.
Son of businessman Mohammad Faisal and housewife Nazish Affan, Malik Faisal who hails from Lucknow, said NCERT books helped him in preparations. Malik now wishes to join IIT-Delhi to pursue BTech in computer sciences.
Overall, the result shows that only three students from IIT-Kanpur zone bagged ranks in top 100. There were 24 students from this zone who secured ranks in top 500.
