City student 3rd in India among girls in JEE Main

City student 3rd in India among girls in JEE Main

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Chennai:  8.8.2021

R Roshana from Chennai secured national level third rank among girl students in Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE) (Main) session-3 conducted from July 20 to 27. She secured 99.993 percentile in the exam.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday declared the results of the JEE (Main) exam results for the BE, BTech paper. More than seven lakh candidates throughout the state attended the exams from 334 cities including 12 cities outside the country. As many as 17 candidates scored 100 percentile at national level.

Roshana from Modern Senior Secondary School in Nanganallur said she had been preparing for the JEE exam for the last four years.

"I expected high marks, but was thrilled to score 296 out of 300 marks and get national level third rank among the girl students. With the high score in the third session, I will focus on JEE (Advanced)," she said.

She wants to pursue BTech in IITs and is interested in studying computer science or maths.

"Though the first two sessions were easy, my percentile in the first session was 99.83 and 99.62. In the third session, I scored better," she added.

Shankar Balajee S from Chettinad Vidhyashram in Chennai scored 99.996 percentile in the third session and emerged as topper in the state.

"I am interested in studying computer science at IIT. Though it was challenging to shift from offline mode to online mode, the coaching institute has provided us with adequate materials. I also prefer online mode as we were able to stick to our own schedule," he said.

B Pavan Kumar, deputy director, FIITJEE Chennai, said many students who appeared for the third session improved their JEE score as they had sufficient time due to the postponement of the exam. The top 2.5 lakh students in JEE will qualify to write the JEE (Advanced) exam scheduled on October 3.