NEET: 3 from Delhi make it to top 10

With the National Testing Agency (NTA) announcing the results for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) on Saturday, three residents of Delhi have starred in the top 10 performers.

- Aheli Das

NEW DELHI:

Mrinal Kishore Jha secured an all-India rank 4 (AIR 4) with a percentile of 99.9998189.

He was followed by Avika Aggarwal, 17, who bagged AIR 5 with a percentile of 99.9996832. Aggarwal, also the top female performer in the NEET-UG entrance test this year, said she could not sleep the previous night as the result was due.

A resident of Faridabad, Aggarwal went to Savitri Public School in south Delhi's Sangam Vihar for higher secondary studies.

"I could not sleep at all last night. Then today, around 9am, my teacher called and woke me up. It was phenomenal when I got to know that I was also the female topper in the country," she told HT.