Bengaluru boy tops IIT-JEE entrance; Mumbai student first in girls

While no one from the city made it to the list of top 10 allIndia JEE Advanced scorers a candidate from Bengaluru who appeared from the Mumbai zone bagged the first rank R K Shishir 17 a resident of Bengaluru got the highest score of 314 out of 360 and became the topperThe results of the Indian Institutes of TechnologyIIT entrance exam Joint Entrance Examination JEE Advanced were announced on Sunday Shishir who lives at Sahakar Nagar and studied at Narayana eTechno School in Bengaluru recently topped the Karnataka Common Entrance Test in the pharmacy stream and bagged the fourth rank in the engineering categoryR K Shishir the allIndia topper with his parents in their Bengaluru homeldquoThe results are the product of my years of hard work and planning I studied from 630 am to 8 pm daily I ensured that I was sleeping eight hours every day as this helped me concentrate in class In my free time I used to read or watch educational videos or play gamesrdquo he said adding ldquoI want to set up my own start up one dayrdquoThe Mumbai topperJahnabi Roy a student of Ryan school in Kandivli is the topper among the girl candidates from Mumbai who appeared for the exam She secured the allIndia rank of 385 in the JEE Advanced examination In the JEE Mains exam she secured the top rank among the girls from Maharashtra She aspires to pursue computer science at Indian Institute of Technology IIT Bombay She had secured 99 per cent in her Std XII CBSE exam in the Science streamMumbai zone toppersBesides Shishir two othersPratik Sahoo and Mahit Gadhiwalawho also appeared for their exam from the Mumbai zone made it to the top 10 Sahoo secured the seventh and Gadhiwala ninth on the AIR listAllIndia girl topperTanishka Kabra from the Delhi zone is the topper among girl candidates with 277 marks Her AIR is 16 Kabra told midday she wants to pursue computer science as itrsquos her favourite subject ldquoAdopt the preparation method thatrsquos best for you and not what others are doing Talking to your parents and family members when you are exhausted and feeling low helpsrdquoMumbai boy Arihant Vashista who studied at Atomic Energy Central School in and Narayana Junior College secured AIR 17 with a score of 277 out of 360 ldquoTwo years ago I saw my brother prepare for JEE and I decided that even I want to study at IIT My brother is studying at IIT Jodhpurrdquo His mother is a Mathematics teacher and father is a scientific officer at the Nuclear Power Corporation of India ldquoMy father taught me the fundamentals of physics I studied on my own until Std X As part of my JEE preparation I studied 1213 hours a day I am happy with my scoresrdquo he told middayAlso Read ED stops TMC leader Abhishek Banerjees relative from flying abroad issues summonsOver 40000 qualifyldquoAs many as 155538 candidates appeared in both paper 1 and 2 in JEE Advanced 2022 A total of 40712 candidates have qualified of which 6516 are femalesrdquo said an IIT Bombay official This year 16598 seats are available at 23 IITs including 1567 supernumerary seats for female candidates This is slightly higher than the previous yearrsquos totalOthers on the top 10 AIR list are Polu Lakshmi Sai Lohith Reddy Thomas Biju Cheeramvelil and Vangapalli Sai Siddhartha from IIT Madras zone ranking second third and fourth respectively The rest are Mayank Motwani Polisetty Karthikeya Pratik Sahoo Dheeraj Kurukunda Mahit Gadhiwala and Vetcha Gnana MaheshZonewise women toppersThe zonewise female toppers are Jaladhi Joshi from IIT Bombay zone Tanishka Kabra from Delhi Sneha Pareek from Guwahati Pragati Agrawal from Kanpur Jahnvi Shaw from Bhubaneswar Palli Jalajakshi from Madras and Vidushi from RoorkeeldquoThe aggregate marks are calculated as a sum of the marks obtained in mathematics physics and chemistry Candidates have to satisfy the subjectwise as well as aggregate qualifying marks to be included in the rank listrdquo a senior IIT Bombay official saidDip in cutoffldquoThis yearrsquos dip in cutoff marks reflects that the exam has become tougher over the years A closer look at the question paper analysing the Easy Moderate and Difficulty levels paper reveals that the difficulty level has gone up significantly To put in perspective the cutoff of IIT Bombay making paper in 2015 vis a vis this year in 2022 a dip in cut off is seen at 35 per centrdquo said Mohit Sardana Director FIITJEE314Score he secured out of 36040712No of candidates who qualified among 15 lakhWith inputs from Agencies