Now, Pratheek cracks AIIMS entrance test, ranks 86th

PANAJI: After being ranked within the first 100 at IIT JEE (Advance), Pratheek Rebello has now cracked the entrance test to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with a rank of 86. Rebello, however, already has his mind set on pursuing engineering in the electrical stream at the

Indian Institute of Technology

(IIT) Bombay.

Rebello is the son of doctor couple Oscar and Marissa.

“As far as I know, it is for the first time that any

Goan student

in history has been ranked in the first 100 at the AIIMS entrance test. It is very rare that anyone after featuring in the first 100 at the IITJEE has also repeated the feat with AIIMS entrance test. These are two of the toughest entrance exams in the world,” said Vyankatesh Prabhudessai, director of Mushtifund Aryaan Higher Secondary School of Panaji, of which Rebello is a student.

AIIMS MBBS entrance exam is considered as one of the most competitive undergraduate medical entrance exams of India because of the analytical questions and the large number of applicants. Each year, approximately 1.5 lakh candidates register for the AIIMS MBBS entrance exam.

Earlier, Rebello had also outdone the record from Goa at BITSAT by scoring 426 out of 450. He had also bagged the all India rank of seven at the Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering entrance exam for admission to BTech programmes of the institute. Rebello was also the first in more than a decade in Goa to attain the top score in physics, chemistry and mathematics, individually, at the Goa Common Entrance Test 2017.

Rebello had topped the Class X exam of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) from Goa in 2015 scoring 98.33%.

Rebello had also outdone the record from Goa at BITSAT by scoring 426 out of 450. He had also bagged the all India rank of seven at the Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering entrance exam for admission to BTech programmes of the institute

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