Das, the engineering entrance exam topper, had tested positive for COVID-19. But despite that, he didn't give up and got back to his studies.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) declared the JEE Main result 2021 on March 8. Six students scored a 100 percentile score in the JEE Main February 2021 exam and Ranjim Prabal Das from Delhi is one among them.
In a chat with news agency ANI, the topper expressed his future plans in the field of studies and also narrated his struggle when he tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Das, the engineering entrance exam topper, had tested positive for COVID-19. But despite that, he didn't give up and got back to studies as soon as his fever subsided.
"When I tested COVID-19 positive, I focused on healing. Once the fever subsided, I got back to studies," Das was quoted as saying by ANI.
Inspired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the JEE Main 2021 topper plans to go to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi for his higher studies.
"I follow Elon Musk and I plan to go to IIT Delhi for higher studies. Otherwise, I will go to InSc Bengaluru for science graduation," Ranjim Prabhal Das said.
The other perfect scorers are Pravar Kataria from Delhi, Guramrit Singh from Chandigarh, Saket Jha from Rajasthan, Sidhanth Mukherjee from Maharashtra and Ananth Krishna Kidambi from Gujarat.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) had conducted the February session examination from February 23 to 26, 2021. This was the first time that the exam was conducted in 13 languages -- Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English and Gujarati.
This year, a total of 6.52 lakh candidates had registered for the entrance examination, 95 percent of whom had appeared in the BE/BTech papers and 81.2 percent appeared in BArch/BPlanning paper.
The result of only Paper 1 (BE and BTech) marks was declared on Monday. The results of Paper 2A and 2B (B. Arch and B Planning) are likely to be announced in the next few days.
The second session of JEE Main will begin on 15 March and admit cards are likely to be released by NTA soon.
The JEE Main 2021 February exam was conducted at over 800 centres in 331 cities, including nine centres abroad -- Colombo, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Kuwait.
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