Kavya Chopra became the first woman to head the Main Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), the results of which were released Wednesday night. He obtained a perfect score of 300 on the exam taken in the March session. She had scored 99.978 in the February session, but decided to reappear as she set a “benchmark for herself of scoring no lower than the 99.98 percentile.”
A student at DPS Vasant Kunj in Delhi, Chopra’s academic life has been full of accomplishments. He scored 97.6 percent on the CBSE class 10 exams.
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Her mother, Shikha Chopra, told indianexpress.com that Kavya was good at math and loved computers. “If you pass JEE Advanced, you could opt for IIT-Bombay computer engineering,” said Chopra.
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An active participant in the math and science Olympics, she had qualified in the Regional Mathematics Olympiad (RMP) in classes 9 and 11. She has also passed IOQP, IOQC IOQM, some of the few prominent Olympics.
At the February attempt, he focused on physics and chemistry, but failed to score highly. Therefore, in the March attempt, he devoted more time to chemistry. The girl from Delhi gave 7-8 hours for the engineering entrance exam.
Kavya’s father is a computer engineer and his mother is a math teacher. His younger brother was promoted to class 9.
Almost 6.19 lakhs of students were enrolled in the JEE Main, of which 13 students scored 100th percentile. In the February session, nine students achieved the 100th percentile. NTA will launch the All India Range (AIR) after the May exam.
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