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PANAJI
For the first time in Goa, three students scored above 400 in the BITSAT (entrance test to BITS), director of Mushtifund Aryaan Higher Secondary School Vyankatesh Prabhudessai announced on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference at Cujira, Prabhudessai announced that this year, the top scorer Naivedya Amarnani had secured 426 on 450, equaling the all-time record set by ex-student Pratheek D’Souza Rebello.
Deep Desai came in a close second, with 425 on 459. Jai Prakash Gurav is the third student who scored over 400, with a score of 406. 12 other Mushtifund Aryaan students secured over 300 for BITSAT.
In the IIT JEE Advanced results which were out on Friday, Naivedya Amarnani got an all- India rank of 491. Prabhudessai also said that the state got four ranks in the top 1500 in India, which is a record from Goa since 1993.
In the IIT JEE Main results, three students from Mustifund Aryan got ranks within the top 1000 in India. Jai Prakash Gurav got an All India Rank of 116. This is the best-ever score in Goa in the current format of JEE introduced in 2013. Approximately 11 lakh students appeared for the exam.
Deep Desai got a rank of 830. Naivedya Amarnani got a rank of 857.
In medical entrance exams, students from the institute excelled in the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) entrance exams with Jai Prakash Gurav getting an All-India Rank (AIR) of 72, V Nikhilesh getting an AIR of 625 and Laxman Desai getting an AIR of 1064.
For NEET, once again Jai Prakash Gurav from the Institute for the highest score in Goa with 645 on 720. His all India rank is 1332.
In GCET too, all three top ranks went to the school, with Jai Prakash Gurav topping in PCM and PM.
Ten students scored above 500, which Prabhudesai claimed was an all time record from a single Institute in the state.
Two students from the Institute got scholarships from the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) given to Indian students studying in India. This takes the school’s tally to 18 scholarships under KVYP in six years.
