Vadodara students improve on rankings

Vadodara: Students from the city cleared Joint Entrance Examination Advanced (JEE Advanced) with flying colours. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur declared the results of the examination on Friday.

JEE Advanced is the second stage of the entrance examination for securing admission into the undergraduate engineering courses at the prestigious IITs, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) and Indian Institute of Science.

As compared to the first phase of the entrance exam, Vadodara students improved their performance. Prerak Contractor who had bagged All India Rank (AIR) 243 in JEE Main with 99.98 percentile bagged AIR 35 in JEE Advanced.

Simultaneously, Shrey Bansal who had bagged AIR 238 in JEE Main with 99.98 percentile bagged AIR 174 in JEE Advanced. Another student Om Sadhwani bagged AIR 225 in JEE Advanced.

“It is a matter of pride for us that the top three students in Vadodara are from our centre. A total of thirty students in general category and two students in SC category who received coaching at our centre have qualified this year,” said Jitesh Joshi, centre head of Allen Career Institute, Vadodara while addressing media persons.

“There are a total 81 selections from our centre,” said S R Mishra, director of IIT Ashram, Vadodara.

“Three students of our long-term classroom programme have got rank under AIR 500. More than 39 students of our centre have qualified in JEE Advanced,” said M L Jain, managing partner of FIITJEE Vadodara centre, adding that student Ayush Das Gupta bagged AIR 247 while Kirtan Patel and Maharshi Kadeval bagged AIR 372 and AIR 490 respectively.