Chennai schoolboy tops JEE (Main)

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Ravi Teja. (Photo: DC)
Ravi Teja. (Photo: DC)

Chennai:

Scoring 340 out of 360, Ravi Teja A.V. of Maharishi Vidya Mandir in the city, has topped Tamil Nadu in the JEE (Main)  results announced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)  Friday midnight.

An elated Ravi says he aims to get into one of the top IITs and so will work even harder for the JEE (advanced) test.  Aniket Murhekar, who scored 309 out of 360 , finds computer science challenging, but could also look at other options. “As far as NITs are concerned I like NIT, Trichy.   IIT-Bombay and IIT-Madras would be my other preferred options,” he said.

While Ravi was happy with the new test pattern, Aniket felt the old one provided him more flexibility and was student-friendly.

The top 1.5 lakh students who cracked JEE (main) will move on to take JEE (advanced) on May 25. Registrations will start on May 4 and end on May 9. Results will be declared on June 19.

Among the thousands who cleared the JEE (main) in the city, are three girls, Fathima Shabana, S. Shamala and L. Pavithra, students of the Chennai corporation schools, who surmounted many odds to qualify for admission to the NITs.

Shamala hopes she will be accommodated in Tamil Nadu but is ready to go to other states. She is aiming to clear the IIT (advanced) exam and so is Pavithra.

Fathima has scored the maximum among the three, with 83 marks out of 360, while Pavithra and Shamala follow her with 78 marks and 66 marks respectively. The Chennai corporation has been providing free training for its children in a tie up with FIT-JEE since the past four years.
“I spend three days a week to practice for the JEE exams,” says Fathima, who aspires to become a software engineer, but she is not sure if her family would let her pursue her studies if she gets the NIT seat in other states.
“We select students according to merit and provide training for the competitive exam. Three out of a class of 22 cleared the JEE (main) this time. Five students from corporation schools have made it through the mains in the past four years,” says R. Kailasam, Tamil Nadu regional course coordinator, FIT-JEE. “We also aid the students who excel in the exams with a sum of `45,000 for higher studies,” he added.
source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC / by N. Arun Kumar  / May 04th, 2014