Pune: Hriday Mohite, 18, has scored 715 marks (percentile 99.998) to secure second place in the state and all-india ranked 5 in the national entry entrance test (UG) 2021 results announced on Monday night.
The national testing agency has carried out NEET on September 12, but the results are delayed because of the pending judicial things.
It was on Thursday that the Supreme Court gave ahead to NTA to release results.
Mrinal Kutri (Telangana), Tanmay Gupta (Delhi) and Karthika G Nair (Maharashtra) are the first three rankings in the country.
The first three rankings in the state were Karthika Nair from Mumbai followed by Hriday and Vaishnivi Sarda.
Hriday, football fans and Liverpool fans, are the son of Anesthesiology Dr.
Vishal Mohite and it’s a professional Trupti Mohite.
“When the answer key was released, we felt that he would get the highest score.
He is always good at learning and has worked hard for this,” his father said.
Hriday said he had studied hard for his entrance examination.
“I want to be a doctor since I was in STD IX or X when I was in a Public School of Dav.
I knew I would be in the top 50 rankings but I didn’t think I would be in the top 20,” he said.
Hriday has prepared Neet for the past two years.
He is also a KVPY scholar.
Durgesh Mangeshkar, an entrance exam expert, said that even though there was hard paper, NEET 2021 MARKS vs the ratings matrix remained similar to Neet 2020 which again pointed on the fact that 2021 batches were more in line with online studies and overcoming the fear of Covid-19 cracked neet 2021.
Nearly 19,000 students scored more than 600 grades this year as in 2020.