Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 4: A whopping 16 students of Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) created history by securing rank AIR 01 in NEET UG examination 2024 by scoring 720/720 each.
The results were announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) today.
Out of these 16 students, 14 are Classroom Students and two are from Aakash’s Distance Learning Programme (DLP).
Aakashians who have secured the AIR 01 are Mridul Manya Anand (from Greater Noida), Ayush Naugraiya (From Jhansi), Akshat Pangaria (Haldwani), Aditya Kumar Panda (Chennai), Arghyadeep Dutta (Kolkata), Saksham Agrawal (Siliguri), Sujoy Dutta (Delhi), Aryan Yadav (Lucknow), Manav Priyadarshi (Ranchi), Palashna Agarwal (Mumbai-Nerul), Dhruv Garg, Samit Kumar Saini and Iram Quazi (Jaipur) and Kriti Sharma (Surat).
The two students who were enrolled in the DLP programme of Aakash are Krishnamurti Shiwal and Gunmay Garg.
Congratulating the students on the extraordinary achievement, Deepak Mehrotra, CEO and MD of Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), said, “We congratulate the students for the exemplary feat. Their achievement speaks volumes of their hard work and dedication as well as the support of their parents. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors.”
The students were enrolled in AESL’s classroom program to prepare for NEET, widely regarded as one of the toughest entrance exams globally.
“We are grateful that Aakash has helped us with both. But for the content and coaching from AESL, we would not have grasped many concepts in different subjects in a short period of time,” the students expressed.
NEET is conducted annually by National Testing Agency as a qualifying test for students who wish to pursue undergraduate medical (MBBS), dental (BDS) and AYUSH (BAMS, BUMS, BHMS, etc.) courses in government and private institutions in India and also, for those intending to pursue primary medical qualification abroad.