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Jalandhar, March 10
Aum Gupta, a Class X student of Police DAV Public School, achieved the highest percentile (99.9796) in JEE Main in the very first attempt.
Gupta does not intend to go in for subsequent chances and wants to focus on JEE Advance so that he meets his aim to qualify for BTech in computer sciences at IIT, Mumbai.
He said he initially thought that the lockdown imposed in the wake of the Covid-19 would hamper his studies as he could not attend regular classes and coaching throughout the year. “I did coaching from a Chandigarh-based centre and everything went online from home, including mock tests. I was not sure if I will be able to maintain my pace and level of understanding, but thankfully, it all went very smoothly. I used to attend online classes for five hours and do self-study for another five hours daily,” he said.