JEE Main 2021 result: Meet Bihar’s Vaibhav Vishal, who secured number one rank in the country

After attempting twice this year, Vaibhav Vishal from Bihar has created history on Wednesday (September 15) by getting All India Rank (AIR) 1 with 100 percentile in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main 2021.      

Another Bihar topper, Kumar Satyadarshi (AIR 11) from Begusarai has scored 100 percentile, while in the female category, Richa Kumari has topped with 99.884 percentile.

“My aim is to get admission in the computer science at IIT-Bombay. I solve as many question papers and practise papers as possible every day for that," said Vaibhav to Times of India.

Whereas, Satyadarshi, from Pokharia in Begusarai, told TOI, “I am very happy that my hard work paid off. I had started focusing on JEE exam when I was in Class 10. After the Class 10 board exam, I moved to Kota for the preparation of JEE. After the COVID-induced lockdown, I returned home and focused only on my studies. I took the lockdown period in a positive way and devoted most of my tie to self-study.”

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has organised JEE Main 2021 exam, declared the All India ranks of students on Wednesday.
The rank preparation list for JEE Main 2021 Session 4 was based on a different formula and it included the results from all the sessions. In order to decide the rank, the students who share the same score undergo tie-breaking criteria. The age has been dropped as one of the criteria to decide the rank. The marks obtained in math, physics, and chemistry are considered respectively followed by students who scored the least negatives.

Vaibhav cracked the exam in his second attempt securing the 1,762 rank in the former and 1,700th place in the latter. “I was not satisfied with my rank last year, so I decided to give another try. I modified my study strategy and resorted to rigorous revision and taking mock tests for scoring better. In 2021, I took three attempts at Mains. In the first two, I scored around 98 percentile, while in the third attempt I fetched the perfect 100,” he told Hindustan Times.

NTA released the JEE Main results for the fourth and last session on jeemain.nta.nic.in and nta.ac.in. A total of 44 students have obtained 100 percentile score and 18 students managed to secure rank 1.