CHENNAI: Pranav Ramakrishnan from Chennai was not able to finish question papers from previous years on time during his preparation. But on April 8, for the first time in two years, he was able to finish the question paper within the three hours. The end result is he has secured All India 28th rank in Joint Entrance Examination (Main) with 330 marks out 360. He also emerged as the top rank holder among the students from Tamil Nadu who took the exam.
CBSE declared the JEE main results on Thursday. Of 11 lakh candidates who appeared for the JEE (Main), 2.21 lakh students have qualified to write JEE (Advanced). “The main challenge is to finish the exam within the stipulated time. For each question, we can only spend about two minutes. Time management was a crucial factor in my success,” Pranav Ramakrishnan said. He is from Maharishi Vidya Mandir School in Chetpet.
His goal is to study in any one of the renowned IITs. “I want to choose either Mechanical or EEE after clearing the JEE (Advanced) exam,” he said. His father Ramakrishnan is a businessman and mother Mahalakshmi is the housewife. He appeared for the online exam on April 8. “I lost my marks to some simple mistakes. But I expected I would feature in the top 100.”
Aditya Vavre, another student from the city, secured all India 97th rank with the score of 319 out of 360 marks. He also wrote the exam online. “I expected the rank among the top 50. But still, I am happy with my rank. I want to study computer science branch in IIT Bombay,” Aditya Vavre said. His father Sushil Kumar Vavre is a railway officer at ICF. The common rank list cut-off is 81 for JEE (Advanced) exam 2017 which is lower than last year. The students who have secured 81 and more will be qualified for JEE (Advanced) exam which is scheduled on May 21.
Those who get higher ranks in the exam will get admission to IITs. “The difficulty level of the question paper was slightly higher this year. The number of qualifying students also increased by 20,000 for JEE (Advanced) this year which resulted in lowering of the cut-off mark,” said Venkat Ramesh, Manager, Academic Operations, Fiitjee. Another expert, Anand Nagarajan from TIME, also said the cut off has seen a significant dip compared to last year. “It can be attributed to the tougher paper this year in comparison to the last year’s paper,” he said.
