Kota: Resonance, a leading coaching institute of Kota, maintained its winning streak in the JEE Main 2017 results declared on 27 April, 2017. Many students from the institute cleared the first of the two-phase hurdle on their way to securing admissions to the various centrally-funded technical education institutions in the country. Kalpit Veerwal, a student of regular classroom program created history by securing full marks in JEE (Main). The information was provided by the MD of Resonance – Mr. RK Verma.

Mr. RK Verma added that Kalpit has made us proud by achieving 360 out of 360 and surpassing the highest record of 355 marks. Kalpit took admission in Resonance in Class VIII in Udaipur Study Centre. Another student of Kota Study Centre Vishwajeet Agarwal clinched AIR 5 by securing 345 marks.

Mr. Verma said that so far total of 13,225 students have qualified for JEE (Advanced). 9,157 students are from regular classroom program and 4,068 from distant learning (DLPD and e-LPD).The highest number of selection which counts to 5,862 are from Kota study centre. There are 23,356 students from Resonance who are eligible to take admission in various NITs, IIIT, and CFTI. Out of the eligible students, 17,360 students are regular classroom students and 5,996 are distant learning students.

Mr. RK Verma also informed that 2 students bagged rank in Top 10, which also includes All India Topper – Kalpit and 20 students are positioned in Top 100. The top 100 rank holders include 10 from regular classroom program and 10 from distance learning program. There are 52 students of Resonance who have scored more than 300 marks in JEE (Main). Out of these students, 29 are from regular classroom program and 23 from distance learning program.

Students of JNV Bundi also performed very well under the able guidance of faculty members of Resonance. All the 50 students from JNV Bundi qualified for JEE (Advanced); out of which 2 students bagged position in top 1000.

Mr Verma added that only the top 2 lakh 20 thousand candidates (including all categories) who qualify in the Paper 1 of JEE Main 2017 are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2017 examination. Applicant appearing for JEE Advanced 2017 has to score minimum 75% marks (for Gen/OBC) and 65% marks (SC/ST/PwD) in 12th or equivalent class. Or, must be within the category-wise top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their respective Class XII (or equivalent) board examination. The score of JEE (Main) will be important for students to get admission in 31 NITs, 20 IIIT and other government funded colleges.

JEE (Advanced) 2017 will be held on 21 May  2017 in two phases.