The results of the first session of the JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) Main, the gateway to engineering institutes in India, were announced on Tuesday.

Among the top achievers is Shiven Toshniwal from Ahmedabad, who has secured a perfect 100 percentile, placing him among the top 14 students in the country.

Many students in various cities of the state, including Ahmedabad, have also scored 99.99 or more percentile.

The JEE Main-1 was conducted by the National Testing Agency on January 22, 23, 24, 28 and 29. A total of 12,58,136 students appeared for the exam across the country.

This year 4,43,622 girls and 8,67,920 boys and two transgender category students had registered for the exam. Among the total students, 4,89,210 were in a general category, 1,41,789 in EWS, 1,30,254 in SC, 39,959 in ST, and 5,07,683 in OBC. 

A total of 14 students from across the country have achieved the perfect 100 percentile with full marks in all three subjects.

Ahmedabad's topper

Ahmedabad’s shining star, Toshniwal is the state topper of Gujarat with 100 percentile. His mother is a paediatrician, while his father is an orthopaedic doctor. 

Originally from Kutch, both his parents are doctors practising medicine. However, Shiven wanted to pursue engineering from the beginning. He had been preparing for it for the last four years, and for the last two years, he dedicated five to six hours daily to self-study for JEE.

Currently studying in Class 12 Science at a CBSE school in Ahmedabad, Shiven will not take the second session exam and with a 100 percentile, has qualified for JEE Advanced. With good marks in Advance, he wants to study Computer Science at institutes including IIT Mumbai-Delhi.

Apart from Shiven, several students from Ahmedabad, including Mohit Agrawal and Rishabh Iyer, have scored 99.99 percentile. Thousands of students from Ahmedabad and Gujarat have given the JEE Main-1 exam and many students have scored 99.99 or more percentile.

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