City lad Anurag secures all India rank 411 in JEE Mains

Ludhiana: The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results of JEE Mains late on Friday, less than a week after the entrance test was conducted. In city, Anurag Gupta secured the AIR 411 and became the top scorer in the city after securing an impressive 99.9699 percentile (NTA score overall) in JEE Mains examination 2020.
In an impressive result, 20 other students from the city have scored 99 percentile and above in the prestigious JEE Mains 2020 engineering competitive examinations.
The meritorious students are Anurag Gupta, Rudhar Pratap Singh, Vinamr Jain, Yashank Agarwal, Anshul Gosain, Mehul Kaushal, Tanish Jain, Arijit Singh, Manjot Singh, Hritik Punj, Anushka Garg, Mohit Kumar, Mukul Gupta, Arshdeep, Paras, Pooja, Pranav Gupta, Vansh Preet Singh Kohli, Angad Singh Kwatra and Nitin Kapoor, who have scored over 99 percentile in the examination.
Attendance
Since 2019, JEE (Mains) is being conducted twice a year. The first cycle was held in January. The second cycle of the entrance test this year was delayed because of the Covid 19 pandemic. It was finally held in 12 shifts over six days from September 1 to 6.
Attendance in the second cycle suffered because of the pandemic. Around 58% of the candidates took the JEE exam in Ludhiana as they braved odds due to the restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic while also following strict protocols on all six days. The attendance figures available for the first shift was 59% and for the second shift was 57%, indicating that the number of candidates taking the test had decreased when an estimated 80% candidates sat for the exam in January.
Out of 2,906 students, 1,711 appeared for the JEE exam. In the first shift which started at 9am and went on till 12pm, 1,488 students were registered and 866 appeared in the first phase and in the second shift which kicked started at 3pm and continued till 6pm, 845 students out of 1,458 students appeared at TCS ION Digital Zone, Sherpur Chowk.
Sunil Kumar, academic head in engineering at an institute, while speaking on the overall performance of students, said, “In general, this year students did not perform well as there was a lot of ambiguity due to normalisation technique. As students had to appear in sessions, thus there was difference in results. A fair chance should be given by conducting the test at the same time for all students. However, students have improved the score but have low percentile. The low performance can be due to Covid-19 as they have been disassociated with studies and as this has impacted the performances.
Now students over 90 percentiles will appear for JEE advance to be held in September 27.
I want to become an IAS officer: City topper
Anurag Gupta, a resident of Dugri Phase II, has topped the city with all-India rank (AIR) 411 in the JEE (Mains) by scoring 99.97 percentile. A student of Kundan Vidya Mandir School, Civil Lines, Anurag Gupta wants to pursue computer science engineering from IIT Delhi or Hyderabad. Now, he will be appearing for JEE advance to be held on September 27.
His father Rajan Gupta works in a private firm and his mother Seema Mittal is a teacher of mathematics at N M Jain Girls Senior Secondary School, Bharat Nagar. Fond of watching movies and running, he aims to be an IAS officer. He secured 98% grade in Class X and scored 96.8 in class XII and was never forced by parents to pursue this field.
Sharing his success mantra, he said, “I used to study for around five hours with complete concentration. I put in my best efforts and coaching also helped as I got full support of my mentors. I have made the use of productive sources. Rather than solving a number of books, I focussed on a good book and anything my teachers recommended.”
“Besides the basic classes for preparation helped me a lot, but keeping a watch on the gtimings to complete the test and planned strategies gave me an edge,” he added.
His mother described him a self-motivated student. “But due to lockdown, the performance got affected. He was not in touch with teachers and he set goals and worked towards them. He never kept his homework pending and everything was on smartphone.