100% NEET score for Panvel girl as she turns eighteen

100% NEET score for Panvel girl as she turns eighteen

Yogita Rao & Ardhra Nair TNN

Mumbai/Pune: 02.11.2021

This was possibly the best ever birthday gift that Karthika Nair would have imagined. Nair, a Panvel resident, who scored 720/720 in NEET-UG and shared the top position in the country, turned 18 on Sunday. Though she was targetting the perfect score, she was not expecting to actually get it. A student of DAV Public School in Panvel, Nair will be considered as the third-ranker for the counselling round. Including the national topper, Maharashtra has two rankers — Hriday Mohite and Vaishnavi Sarda — in the top 20. NEET-UG results were announced on Monday. On Thursday, the Supreme Court gave a goahead to the National Testing Agency to release the results. Of 15.4 lakh students who appeared for the test, 8.7 lakh qualified nationally.

Speaking to TOI, Nair said that she would want to join AIIMS, Delhi, which is the best in the country. “I have always found physics very tough and had to put in extra efforts. I relied entirely on NCERT books for my preparation,” said Nair, whose father works for a private logistics firm and mother is a computer science lecturer at a Navi Mumbai college. While her interest lies in oncology, she would explore other fields too, she said.

She found this year’s NEET paper tougher than the previous years, but managed to crack it well. Previous years’ question papers and mock tests helped her in practising for the exam.

“Studying online in the pandemic was no tough task. There are students who may find it difficult to understand lectures online, but the teachers were helpful and we were saving time in commuting to school and coaching class,” said Nair.

Hriday Mohite, from Pune’s DAV Public School, ranked fifth with a few others but in counselling ranks 14th in the country and second in the state.

The football enthusiast is the son of anaesthesiologist Dr Vishal Mohite and IT professional Trupti Mohite. “When the answer key was released, we had a feeling that he would get top marks. He has always been good at studies and has worked hard for this,” said Dr Mohite. Hriday wanted to become a doctor since his school days.