Pranav Ramakrishnan, a student of Maharshi Vidya Mandir, Chetpet, with a score of 330, has bagged the All India Rank 28 and topped among the students who took the Joint Entrance Examination main exam from Tamil Nadu.
Pranav hopes to be admitted to the mechanical engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology — Madras. “I hope I can get into any of the five old IITs,” he says adding electrical and electronic engineering to his options. He has also applied for BIT SAT.
“Mains is a fast exam and you have only two minutes to answer a question. Until this year, whichever paper I tried I could not complete,” he says adding that in the exam though he managed to complete the paper. “I got full marks in math, but lost 10 marks in physics and 20 marks in chemistry,” he says. As for the JEE (Advanced) he says since the pattern is changed continuously it would be tough.
“In Main, you have only one correct answer to a question but in Advanced the difficulty level increases as there are multiple options,” he says. His father is a businessman in Dubai and his mother a homemaker.
According to FIIT-JEE, a coaching centre of which Pranav is a student, more than 1,000 of its students who appeared from across the country had qualified and 25 of them had featured in the top 100.
Anand Nagarajan, Head of school division T.I.M.E. Chennai, said the category cut-off had seen a significant dip compared to last year. In part, the dip in cut-off can be attributed to toughness of this year’s paper. “The students in TIME Chennai did well with 30% selection in JEE Main among those students who enrolled with us,” says Mr. Anand. Of the 11,86,454 candidates who took the exam across the country, the Central Board of Secondary Education has declared 2,21,427 candidates as eligible to take the JEE (Advanced) on May 21.
