Kota’s class act: 35 students in top 100

JAIPUR: Kota coaching majors may have missed a slot in the top 10 All India Rank (AIR) of JEE Main, but they have managed to bag 35 slots in the top 100 AIR. The late Friday night result has brought cheers to the coaching town, which is waiting for its students to return.
Leading the pack is Allen Career Institute, which claimed that 28 of its students made it to the top 100, with four scoring 100 percentile and managing ranks within top 20. Akhil Jain topped the list (AIR-11) followed by R Muhender Raj (AIR 13), Parth Dwivedi (AIR 14) and Akhil Agarwal (AIR 17).
Institute’s director Brajesh Maheshwari said, “Kota has yet again proved its mettle in JEE Main. Our students have done phenomenally well and the selections to appear in JEE Advanced are in thousands.” He informed that their institutes have produced toppers in 10 states and girl toppers in nine states.
Resonance Eduventures Pvt Ltd claimed 12,464 selections till the last reports came in. “Our top-performing candidates are Avi Kumar (AIR-37), Sankalp Parashar (AIR-74), Achintya Nath (AIR-87) and distance learning programme students Akash Sinha (AIR-53) and Aditya Tanwar (AIR-81),” said RK Verma, the managing director of the firm. Verma informed that there are 23 students in top 200, 61 in top 500 and 138 in top 1,000.
According Vibrant Academy director Mahendra Singh Chouhan, in all 1,503 students were selected for JEE Advanced among 2,253 students who appeared in the exam. “Our selection percentage is 66.71% and 12 of our students got 99.90 percentile. All the selections are from the classroom programme only,” said Chouhan.
Career Point students performed well in JEE Main 2020 (September attempt), the result of which was released by the National Testing Agency. Classroom student N. Siddik Ayyappa secured 99.92 percentile & Aniket Kumar secured 99.79 percentile as the top scorers.
Career Point coaching institute academic director Shailendra Maheshwari said 64 students have scored above 99 percentile and 21 students scored above 99.50 percentile. Career Point’s managing director Pramod Maheshwari said the counselling session for all students of JEE Main will be available soon on the Career Point YouTube channel. The session will highlight the complete information related to branch and college selection.