14 Virudhunagar students crack national entrance exams

Around 14 students from the district government and government model schools have successfully cleared national-level entrance exams and secured admissions in some of the country's top universities, including IIT, NIT, and IHM.

- Jeyalakshmi Ramanujam @ Theni

The state government established residential schools across Tamil Nadu in 2022 to prepare students for competitive exams including NEET, JEE and CLAT.

A bunch of students from the first batch of the model school in Theni have secured admission in engineering and law courses in central government educational institutions.

According to sources, the school gave coaching to 102 students, of which 40 each appeared for NEET and JEE respectively, and 22 sat for CLAT. Of these, seven scored between 200 and 300 marks in NEET. The rest of the students just managed pass marks. R Naveenkumar, the school topper, secured 464 out of 720 marks.

Among the 40 who appeared for JEE, three have got admission in IIT-Bhubaneswar. Four students bagged admission in Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI). After clearing CLAT, three students have got admission in Dr Ambedkar Law University while another student got admission in Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam.