Meet IIT-JEE topper with AIR 7, daughter of Maths teacher, scored 332 marks in JEE Advanced 2024, planning to...

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has recently announced the result of JEE Advanced 2024. Among female candidates, Dwija Dharmeshkumar Patel has topped with an overall all-India rank of 7. She secured 332 marks out of 360. Hailing from Rajkot, she secured AIR 7. “I am very happy. I did not expect to be a female topper. This is the result of my hard work and the guidance given by my educators in the class,” she told Hindustan Times.

Dwija's mother is a homemaker, and her father works as a maths teacher in a school. In Rajkot, she received a 99.1% on her class 10 exam.

“I want to pursue a B.Tech degree at IIT Bombay in computer science stream. I want to do research work in artificial intelligence and machine learning,” Dwija added.

Dwija chose JEE and achieved AIR 58 in the JEE mains, motivated by her uncle, an engineer.

“After the JEE mains result, I started preparing for the advanced examination by solving practice papers. Studying hard and solving as much as practice papers is a key factor of my success,” she said.

The IIT entrance exam was conducted on May 26, 2024, in two sessions across various centers nationwide. The answer key was released on June 2. The top 2.5 lakh JEE Main 2024 students were eligible to take the JEE Advanced. This year, the cut-off marks for JEE Advanced increased. The minimum cut-off for general category candidates in JEE Main 2024 was 93.2 percentile, compared to 90.7 in 2023 and 88.4 in 2022.