Divyanshu Aggarwal is one of the nine students who scored 100% in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main. Hailing from Haryana’s Hisar, Aggarwal has secured the first rank in the exam in his first attempt and wants to study computer science engineering from IIT. Divyanshu would be the first engineer in his family.
As per the Indian Express reports, he was born in a family of doctors and should have studied medicine at first, but it was because of his love for mathematics that he chose engineering.
“I love solving maths problems but my parents initially wanted me to pursue medicine. However, looking at my inclination towards the subject, they supported me,” he said.
The 18-year-old has been focusing on JEE Advanced (entrance exams for IIT) preparation together with JEE Main from the past two years now.
Divyanshu is self-motivated and spends at least 5-6 hours to his studies a day. “One should not study for the sake of an exam but for understanding the subjects, even if it takes one to study more than the prescribed syllabus,” he said.
Aggarwal further said, “Most of my time was spent in self-study. I also joined Vidyamandir classes where I would solve tests. I was done with NCERTs first and then moved to more advanced material. I studied physics from Chengage series, maths from Arhant publications, and chemistry from S Chand.”
Meanwhile, he said that it was not all about studies for him. “I never forced myself to study. On days when I did not feel like preparing, I used to take rest and focus on other things. I like badminton and chess. Such leisure days, however, were very few. I loved the subjects so much that I tend to read up more and more,” said the JEE Main January topper.
he also followed the strategy of solving math first and then solving physics.
For JEE Main he also followed the strategy of solving math first and then solving physics and chemistry. “In a hurry, I tend to make silly mistakes in math thus I gave time to the subject. I left the questions I did not knew answers to or was confused about to be solved later,” he said. The topper found the long-form questions easy. “While the exam was a balance of all the three subjects, the new long-form questions were easy in terms of calculations but required one to solve more as the answers would be in form of integers.”
Today, the much-awaited result has finally been announced by the National Testing Agency, NTA on the official website — jeemain.nta.nic.in.
A total of nine people obtained 100 percentile in JEE Main. Among these was a twin brothers duo from Delhi one of them scored 100 and the other 99.9 percentile.
Another topper was Divyanshu Aggarwal who was likely to study medicine being born in a family of doctors but he claims that it was his love for mathematics that made him choose and learn the engineering stream.
Another 100 percentile scorer, Akhil Jain is set to be first engineer in his family. He is born and brought up in Kota, Akhil was always inclined towards academics.
Read: JEE Main Result 2020 announced @ jeemain.nta.nic.in; Check cut-off for top NITs and direct link here
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