Archit secures AIR 2, was second topper in AIIMS; Girl who aced it is ranked 11
The NEET 2017 results declared on Friday came with a mixed bag for those who had secured top ranks in the AIIMS entrance exam declared last week.
Surat girl Nishita Purohit, who was AIIMS 2017 topper, secured All India Rank (AIR) 11. Indore boy Archit Gupta, who followed Nishita at second position in AIIMS 2017, aced her in the NEET securing AIR 2.
Both will seek admission at AIIMS, New Delhi.
For Archit, it is the culmination of two years of no basketball, no video games, no social media, and studies spanning 14 to 15 hours every day. The 17-year-old had scored a perfect 100% in the AIIMS and 96.5% in the NEET. He aspires to become a neurosurgeon.
Coached at the Indore centre of the Kota-based Allen Career Institute, Archit said that he had expected a good rank, but not the AIR 2. He had a suggestion for the other medical aspirants. “Don’t waste time, focus on studies in school and at coaching institutes, and follow the NCERT books,” he says.
Nishita too expressed happiness at her rank. “After the NEET answer key was released it was announced that bonus marks will be given for a few questions because of errors in the questions. The bonus marks disturbed my NEET rank,” she said.
She claimed that the AIIMS entrance examination paper was tougher than the NEET.
In Kota for last two years and studying at the Allen Career Institute, she too had scored a 100 percentile in AIIMS 2017. She said that she used to attend around six hours of daily coaching classes and later studied for six more hours.
Her father, Nirmal Indu Purohit, is an IITian, while her mother, Himanshu, is a housemaker who had studied pharmacy.