Seventeen-year-old Tejas Singh, a Sikh boy from Jammu and Kashmir, has achieved the top position in JEE (Mains) with a percentile of 99.91, The Hindustan Times reported.
Tejas secured an all-India rank of 1123 when the JEE Mains results were announced on Saturday. Tejas is the son of Sukhpal Singh, Additional Secretary in the Public Health Engineering Department (Jal Shakti), and government teacher Sonia Singh. He aims to crack JEE (Advanced) on June 4.
Tejas attended Delhi Public School and achieved 93% in his matriculation. “My father had told me about JEE exams. Since I also liked mathematics, I opted for the non-medical stream and started preparing for it. Though I joined the coaching centre in Class 10. The Covid-19 pandemic hampered my preparation in 2020 and 2021,” Tejas said.
“I started serious preparations in 2022. I studied eight to nine hours with breaks in a day but remained consistent. Consistency is very important. It holds the key to one’s success,” he said. Tejas attributed his success to regular mock tests, and expressed his gratitude to God, his teachers, and his parents.