Of the 11.7 lakh students who appeared for the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) for engineering admissions, 23 candidates — all boys — bagged hundred percentile score.
Among the toppers, seven are from Telangana, followed by three each from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, two from Haryana and one each from Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Karnataka.
One of them, Telangana-based Rishi Shekhar Shukla, a 16-year-old student of the Pallavi Model School in Hyderabad, told the The Hindu, “I packed in nine hours of study per day, devoting three hours each to physics, chemistry and mathematics.”
