Lucknow :
Hailing from a family of engineers, his doctor mother the only exception, Lucknow boy Rohan Gupta is the latest to achieve the distinction. Bagging all India rank 43 in the JEE (Main), Rohan is likely to be the top scorer in Uttar Pradesh. His father Rohit Gupta secured AIR 196 in the IIT-JEE in 1988 and joined IIT-Kanpur while his mother Anamika Gupta, a gynaecologist cracked the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) way back in 1991 with an AIR of 123.
Securing 328 marks out of 360 in JEE Mains, Rohan will now appear for JEE Advanced, the gateway for admissions to coveted IITs. Rohan’s score card read 112, 115 and 101 in physics, chemistry and maths respectively. Each section carried 120 marks. “After calculating the marks using the official answer key, I was expecting any rank under top 50,” said Rohan, who aspires to pursue computer science engineering from IIT-Bombay.
For the City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar passout, success is directly proportional to consistency. “Stay focussed for two complete years, in classes XI and XII. Believe in NCERT textbooks and make best use of them while preparing for JEE,” shares Rohan. His class XII results are awaited and his score in class X was 96.8%.
Rohan’s list of achivements doesn’t stop there. In class X, he cracked the National Talent Search Examination and appeared for Olympiads in mathematics, physics, chemistry and astronomy. Rohan plays lawn tennis, and cricket. Indoors, he plays games on his computer. “He has no interest in watching television and has in fact, got all of us rid of television,” said Anamika.
An ex-IITian, Rohit played a key role in the Women Power Line 1090, a pet project of the former goverment. “The whole IT backbone for 1090 was provided by me,” said Rohit, a software engineer who runs his own company. Anamika is a gynaecologist in Community Health Centre (CHC), Bakshi ka Talab.
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday announced the results of JEE Main A total of 2,21,427 have qualified for JEE (Advanced) which regulates admissions into IIT and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. Out of 11,86,454 who registered for JEE (Main), 11,22,351 took the exam, both in online and offline mode.
Doing away with the class XII weightage this year, CBSE declared the JEE Main rank too. The cut-off for Common Rank List (CRL) is 81 while for OBC – Non Creamy Layer, the cut-off is 49. The cut-off for SC, ST and Persons with Disabilities is 32, 27 and 1 respectively. In the top 1000 ranks, there are 932 boys and only 68 girls.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Lucknow News> Schools & Colleges> UP / TNN / April 28th, 2017