Soyeb Aftab, who topped NEET on Friday with a perfect score of 720, credited his parents for the success and said he never expected to get first place on the entrance medical exam despite being optimistic.
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Aftab, the son of housewife Sultan Razia and Sheikh Mohammad Abbas, a small business owner, said it was his mother who motivated him to aspire to be a doctor.
“I would like to give all the credit to my mother who motivated me to aspire to be a doctor and supported me all the time,” he said. PTI.
Aftab, 18, said his father gave him all the financial support, but that it was his mother who spent most of her time supporting him in his studies.
He said he moved to the Kota training center in Rajasthan after the class 12 board exam to prepare for the National Entrance and Eligibility Test (NEET).
“My mother and my younger sister accompanied me to Kota and made all the arrangements for the studies there,” he said.
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The Rourkela boy said that most of his time during the day was spent in training class.
“At first I studied for only three hours a night, and finally I increased the time as the exam got closer,” he said.
Aftab, who scored a perfect 720 out of 720 on the exam, said: “I am absolutely happy. There is no doctor in my family. I would like to study at AIIMS-New Delhi. “
“All the credit goes to my mother and father,” he said, reacting to his score.
Aftab said he was confident of getting a spot in the top 50 after checking the answer key for all the questions, but he never expected to pass the exam.
Aftab and Akansha Singh of Delhi scored 720 out of 720 points, but the boy Odisha was ranked first and Singh second according to the tiebreaker policy of the National Testing Agency, authorities said.
The tiebreaker policy takes into account factors such as age, grades by topic and the number of wrong answers, they said.
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