Pb girl gets 100 percentile in 4 of 5 subjects in CUET

Ananaya Jain (17) from Ludhiana in Punjab scored in the 100th percentile in four out of five subjects in this year’s national entrance test for admissions to universities, becoming the only one among the over 10 lakh students who took the exam to achieve this mark, the National Testing Agency (NTA) said on Friday.

- Sanjay Maurya

Announcing the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduates (CUET-UG) results for 2025, NTA said 17 students scored in the 100th percentile in three subjects, 150 in two subjects, and 2,679 in one subject.

Arjav Jain (17) from east Delhi's Krishna Nagar placed second in the test. Purva Singh of Haryana came third.

Top ranker Ananaya missed a perfect five-out-of-five, by placing in the 99.99th percentile for English, even as she scored in the 100th percentile in mathematics, accountancy, economics and business studies.

She secured 1225.93 out of a possible 1250 marks in the exam.

Ananaya, a commerce student at DAV Public School, Pakhowal Road, scored 98.8% in her class 12 board exams and 97% in class 10.