Krishang Joshi secures AIR 3 in NEET in first try
Krishang Joshi from Pune has secured an All India Rank (AIR) 3 in NEET-UG 2025 — and that too in his first try — inserting him among the many prime scorers in one among India’s best entrance exams. The end result was declared by the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) on Friday.
Over 22.09 lakh college students appeared for the NEET-UG examination this 12 months, with 12.36 lakh qualifying. Joshi scored 681 out of 720, standing third within the nation, behind Rajasthan’s Mahesh Kumar (AIR 1) and Utkarsh Awadhiya (AIR 2). Delhi’s Avika Aggarwal topped amongst ladies, securing AIR 5.
“I by no means imagined I’d get Rank 3. After the paper, I felt I’d land someplace underneath 50. However this? It took just a few seconds to sink in,” Krishang stated.
The 17-year-old ready at an institute’s topper batch after cracking their examination in Class 10. “My poor efficiency in Class 9 pushed me to work more durable. That failure turned my turning level,” he stated.
He believes that robust conceptual readability, slightly than rote studying, was key to his success. “I by no means relied on memorising formulation. I derived them from the fundamentals, which made tough questions simpler to deal with,” he stated.
Krishang adopted a demanding but balanced schedule: attending teaching from 9am to five.30pm and finding out independently from 6.30 pm till 1am, usually placing in 5 to 6 hours of self-study day by day. “Teaching provides you route, however precise development occurs throughout self-study,” he stated.
He prioritised physics in his preparation. “It’s time-consuming. In case you begin with biochemistry and get caught, physics usually will get ignored,” he stated. On examination day too, he started with physics and accomplished the paper in 2 hours and 10 minutes, utilizing the remainder of the time to cross-check and fill the OMR sheet.
Whereas the paper wasn’t too troublesome, Krishang stated it was “unexpectedly prolonged”, requiring him to regulate his pace mid-exam — a shift he managed because of common apply exams.
He credit his lecturers and oldsters for holding him motivated throughout lows. “There have been instances I felt demotivated regardless of finding out arduous. My household jogged my memory that effort issues greater than end result,” he stated.
For future aspirants, his recommendation is easy: “Develop real curiosity in all three topics. Deal with understanding and revision, particularly in biology and inorganic chemistry. And by no means skip mock exams.”
Krishang now goals to hitch AIIMS Delhi, with a eager curiosity in surgical procedure. “It’s the journey and the self-discipline that rely essentially the most,” he stated.
