PATNA: Patna's Arudeep Kumar is among the 24 candidates across the country and the only one from Bihar to score perfect 100 percentile in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main session 2, the results of which were announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday. The boy has scored 290 out of 300 marks and secured All India Rank 12.
Born to Deepak Kumar Jha, chief engineer at Bihar State Power Transmission Company Limited and Kumari Anamika, Arudeep wishes to pursue computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay. "My preference is to get admission in IIT-Bombay and for that, I am completely focusing on JEE (Advanced) exam. I am interested in computer science and would like to pursue further studies and research in this field," he said.