Kota got to stamp its success far and wide on Sunday, with the top three students who cleared the IIT entrance having been coached at the Jaipur and Chandigarh centres of an institute from the Rajasthan town.
While Jaipur boy Aman Bansal topped the JEE (advanced) for 2016, Bhavesh Dhingra of Haryana's Yamuna Nagar came second. Kunal Goyal, also from Jaipur, grabbed third place, making it a rare top three from a single Kota-based institute, Allen Career Institute.
Riya Singh from Kota was the topper among girls, with an all-India ranking of 133. Animesh Bohara was the topper in Delhi with 19th rank.
Bansal, who scored 320 marks out of 372, is the first topper from Jaipur in the past five decades. "I wasn't sure but my institute kept assuring me of my rank," said Bansal, the son of an engineer working with the government. Aman wants to study computer science at IIT-Bombay. "My dream is to make education-related software and mobile apps so that children do not have to drop out due to poor learning," he said. Dhingra said the credit for his achievement went to god, his parents, and teachers.
IIT Guwahati, the organising IIT for this year's JEE-Advanced, said IIT Bombay zone accounted for 8,810 successful candidates, followed by Madras 6,702, Delhi 5,941, Guwahati 2,468, Kanpur 4,443, Kharagpur 4,560 and Roorkee 3,642.
While Jaipur boy Aman Bansal topped the JEE (advanced) for 2016, Bhavesh Dhingra of Haryana's Yamuna Nagar came second. Kunal Goyal, also from Jaipur, grabbed third place, making it a rare top three from a single Kota-based institute, Allen Career Institute.
Riya Singh from Kota was the topper among girls, with an all-India ranking of 133. Animesh Bohara was the topper in Delhi with 19th rank.
Bansal, who scored 320 marks out of 372, is the first topper from Jaipur in the past five decades. "I wasn't sure but my institute kept assuring me of my rank," said Bansal, the son of an engineer working with the government. Aman wants to study computer science at IIT-Bombay. "My dream is to make education-related software and mobile apps so that children do not have to drop out due to poor learning," he said. Dhingra said the credit for his achievement went to god, his parents, and teachers.
IIT Guwahati, the organising IIT for this year's JEE-Advanced, said IIT Bombay zone accounted for 8,810 successful candidates, followed by Madras 6,702, Delhi 5,941, Guwahati 2,468, Kanpur 4,443, Kharagpur 4,560 and Roorkee 3,642.