JEE Mains topper Ranjim Prabal Das, who despite testing positive for Covid-19 topped the coveted competitive exam, said that he was a fan of Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk.
Das, who was among five other Indians to get a perfect score of 100 in the JEE Mains exam, said that he planned to go to IIT Delhi for his higher studies.
“I follow Elon Musk and I plan to go to IIT Delhi for higher studies. Otherwise, I will go to Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru for science graduation.” Das told ANI.
The student, who hails from Assam, also said that he wasted no time in preparing for the IIT entrance exam after he recovered from his bout with Covid-19.
“When I tested Covid-19 positive, I focused on healing. Once fever was down I got back to studies,” he added.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) had conducted the February session examination from February 23 to 26, 2021. The exam was conducted at over 800 centres in 331 cities, including nine centres abroad -- Colombo, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Kuwait.
This year, a total of 6.52 lakh candidates had registered for the entrance examination, 95 per cent of whom had appeared in the B.E/B.Tech papers and 81.2 per cent appeared in B.Arch/B.Planning paper.
This was the first time that the exam was conducted in 13 languages -- Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English and Gujarati.
Starting this year, the exam will be conducted four times a year to offer flexibility to students and a chance to improve their scores. The next phases will be held in March, April and May.
Published 10 March 2021, 05:08 IST