Indore boy Kartik Patekar claimed the sixth position in the All-India Ranking of the Joint Entrance Exam (Advanced), the results of which were declared on Sunday.
Kartik scored 295 marks out of 372. The JEE (Advanced) was conducted in two parts: Paper 1 and Paper 2. Each paper had 54 questions — 18 from each subject — and was worth 186 marks. Each subject carried 124 marks, taking the total marks to 372.
The 17-year-old had topped in the state in the JEE (Mains) with 336 out of 360 marks. “After scoring top position in the state in JEE (Mains), I’m pretty much sure about getting position in top-10 merit list in AIR,” Kartik had told HT after JEE (Mains) results were declared on April 27.
