Barnala boy secures All India Rank 7 in NEET UG, household eyes for AIIMS

Keshav Mittal, 17, from Tapa city in Punjab’s Barnala district secured all-India rank (AIR) 7 within the Nationwide Eligibility-cum-Entrance Take a look at (NEET) UG, scoring 680 marks out of a complete of 720, the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) introduced on Saturday.
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This was his first try on the medical entrance examination that the NTA conducts yearly and he has emerged as the best scorer from Punjab.
Keshav, who studied at DM Public Senior Secondary Faculty, Karar Wala, Bathinda district, undertook teaching at a non-public institute in Chandigarh, the place he maintained a research routine of eight to 9 hours day by day.
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His father, Dr Prabodh Mittal, is a homeopathic physician in Tapa, whereas his mom, Sunita, is a homemaker.
An elated Dr Mittal mentioned: “We have been anticipating he can be within the first 100, however Keshav has scored past our expectations to make it to the highest 10. He’ll research in a single the most effective institutes of the nation.”
The daddy shared how Keshav had been centered and balanced in his preparation. “He ensured ample sleep and restricted smartphone use to about half-hour a day,” Dr Mittal mentioned, including that his son was capable of handle stress successfully.
Expressing happiness over her son’s efficiency, Sunita mentioned Keshav was the Bathinda district topper within the medical stream in his Class 12 board examination.
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Rajasthan’s Mahesh Kumar topped the examination, whereas Madhya Pradhesh’s Utkarsh Awadhiya bagged the second rank. Greater than 12.36 lakh candidates out of twenty-two.09 lakh take a look at takers certified the examination. The quantity is down from final 12 months’s 13.15 lakh qualifying candidates. Nonetheless, the variety of take a look at takers was additionally larger final 12 months at over 23.33 lakh. The utmost qualifying candidates are from Uttar Pradesh (over 1.7 lakh), adopted by Maharashtra (over 1.25 lakh) and Rajasthan (over 1.19 lakh).The Nationwide Eligibility-cum-Entrance Take a look at-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) is the biggest entrance examination within the nation by way of the variety of candidates showing for the take a look at.
A complete of 1,08,000 seats can be found for the MBSS course — roughly 56,000 in authorities hospitals, and about 52,000 in non-public faculties.
Admissions to undergraduate programs in dentistry, Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha additionally utilise NEET outcomes for admission.