JEE result gives Tricity nothing much to cheer

CHANDIGARH: The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) advanced results have failed to impress this year with only one student making it to top 100. For last two years, the city has been seeing All India Rank 1 (AIR 1).

This year Yatin Jindal topped Tricity with AIR 94 and is also the only student to be in top 100 in Tricity.
In 2018, Tricity had witnessed one of the best JEE advanced results with two students making a mark nationally by getting ranks in top 10.While Pranav Goyal secured AIR 1, with a score of 337 out of 360, Neelaryan Gupta secured AIR 10 with 310 marks out of 360. In top 100, four students had secured places from Tricity.
In 2017, it was even better with three students making it to top 10 and eight students had made it to top 100. It was Bhavan Vidyalaya Panchkula's Sarvesh Mehtani who had grabbed AIR 1 in 2017.
In 2016 only two students secured positions in top 100 including AIR 2, grabbed by Bhavesh Dhingra and AIR 94 taken by Shivam Garg. In 2015, four students had made it to top 100 from Tricity. In 2014 there were again three students in top 100 including AIR 6, 71 and 80.
This year, the second and third position have gone to AIR 102 and AIR 108.
Adit Khokar, who scored the AIR 102, said he wants to study computer science. He also said he made sure to work harder when in JEE main he secured AIR 518 for a better performance in JEE advance.
Adit's father, Vikrant Khokar, is a businessman and his mother, Sonia Chaudhary, a school teacher. "Speed can be compromised but accuracy cannot," said Adit, defining the best instruction he got during preparation.
Shivesh Gupta of Panchkula scored AIR 108 to become the third Tricity topper. Shivesh's father, Vinay Vishnu Gupta is working in the insurance sector and mother, Neeru Bala is a homemaker.