Over 80 Bokaro students, the majority of them from the Delhi Public School, have cracked the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains, 2021, battling against the restrictions due to Covid-19.

A total of 41 students of DPS Bokaro scored more than 90 percentile, while six students scored above 99 percentile.

Aditya and Varun, both students of the Delhi Public School, scored 99.67 and 99.58 percentiles respectively, the authorities said in a press release.

Taking note of the results, principal A.S. Gangwar said, “Despite the crisis faced by the students during the pandemic, the results are satisfactory. We do hope for better results in the upcoming exams.”

Students of Chinmaya Vidyalaya did well, too, with the school’s public relation officer Sajiv Kumar saying, “Bharat Kabra has scored 99.85 percentile marks. Apart from Kabra, about a dozen students of Chinmaya have scored 95 and above percentile marks in the national level examination.”

Bokaro native secures perfect score

Saket Jha. Telegraph Picture

Saket Jha, an alumnus of DPS Bokaro studying in Kota, has cracked the JEE Mains with a perfect score of 100 percentile points.

His father Sanjay Kumar Jha, principal of the state-run high school Tand Ballydih, was happy with his son’s performance.

Saket has always been a bright student interested in engineering, for which he had even bagged a scholarship from the Allen Institute, who had sponsored his education, accommodation, food, and coaching from class 9 to 12.

The Institute also enrolled him in Delhi Public School, Kota, from where he cracked the national-level exam.