Delhi boy Dipanshu Jindal bags top rank in JEE(Main)

NEW DELHI: Dipanshu Jindal did not need the top rank in Joint Entrance Examination (Main). With an all-India rank of 53 in the JEE (Advanced), he was headed to one of the Indian Institutes of Technology anyway. But the 'AIR 1' "is good for the resume", reasons the 18 year-old lad from Shalimar Bagh. The Central Board of Secondary Education declared the ranks for JEE Mains on Thursday night. The AIR 2 holder, Pratyush Maini is from Gurgaon while Delhi's Rajas Bansal secured All India Rank 3. He is from Sanskriti School and has a rank of 124 in JEE Advanced.


Jindal, a student of SD Public School, Pitampura, hopes to study computer science at IIT Delhi. "I guess my Class 12 results were all right. I did fairly well," says admitting, with a laugh, that he is trying very hard to sound modest. "I don't want to sound like I am bragging," he says. He got an aggregate of 98.6% in the Class 12 CBSE exams, scoring full marks in physics and mathematics. He was school topper.

"Initially, I was expecting a rank of about 100. But my mentor at the coaching class told me a rank in the region of 10-20 is more likely. I wasn't expecting AIR 1," he says. He has his father, a mathematics tutor, to thank for his firm grounding in the subject. "He shaped me. He taught me in my initial years," he says. His mother's a homemaker and a younger sister is in Class 11. He joined coaching in Class 11 and for the last two months, put in over 12 hours of work per day. "My parents are currently in seventh heaven," he says. They are also planning a party - their second within a few weeks. "They threw a party after the JEE Advanced results were out," he says, "Now they'll have another on Sunday."

Despite the long hours of study, Jindal isn't all work and no play. "I play cricket and football. And I spend four-five hours daily on social media. My parents used to scold me but it was important too. You can't turn into a machine for two years," he says.

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority, 2016, will regulation seat allocation and admissions into 92 institutes including 22 Indian Institutes of Technology , Indian School of Mines, 31 National Institutes of Technology; 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology and another 18 government-funded organisations





 Source:TimesofIndia

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