Falor, who ranked first on the Advanced Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), also scored in the 100th percentile on the JEE-Mains.
The boy from Pune, Chirag Falor, who has passed this year’s JEE Advanced, will not study at any IIT in the country, as he has already obtained admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
Falor, who ranked first on the Advanced Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), also scored in the 100th percentile on the JEE-Mains.
He was admitted to MIT in March but was conducting studies online from here due to the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown.
Falor said he had been preparing for the JEE for four years as it is just an exam but with a vast syllabus, while MIT assesses a candidate for personality and potential and checks how much they can take advantage of the opportunities. .
“I got admitted to MIT and will move on. Classes have already started and I am attending them online. I had been preparing for these exams for four years, so I didn’t want to stop applying.” Falor told PTI by phone from Pune.
Falor scored 352 out of 396 in the JEE Advanced.
“The JEE was more difficult than the MIT exam. The exam has given me a completely different confidence,” he said.
“I used to attend MIT classes online at night and then prepare for IIT exams during the day,” he added.
Falor, who studied at Pragati Public School in Delhi and St Arnold Central School here until class 10, said that he had planned to return to the United States in January next year.
The results of JEE Advanced were announced by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi on Monday.
Falor had received a gold medal at the 13th International Olympiad for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) held in Hungary in 2019. He also took first place in American Mathematics 2019.
He was awarded the 2020 Bal Shakti Puraskar by President Ram Nath Kovind. He also obtained the 2020 Bal Shakti Puraskar and was praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the time.
JEE Advanced was held on September 27 amid strict precautions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In total, 1.6 lakh of students had signed up for the exam and 1.5 lakh turned up. More than 43,000 candidates, including 6,707 girls, passed the exam.
The main joint entrance examination (JEE) for admission to engineering colleges was held from September 1-6.
The staggered entry and exit of candidates, the use of hand sanitizers at the doors, the distribution of masks and social distancing when candidates queued, were followed at test centers across the country.
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