Bengaluru student scores 100 percentile in JEE Main 2025

Narayana Co Kaveri Bhavan, Kasavanahalli student Kushagra Gupta scored 100 percentile in JEE Main 2025 paper-1 and joined the elite club of 24 students from across the country.

Kushagra achieved 100 percentile in the initial test of JEE, whereas in the second test, he achieved 99.9 percentile. Born in Kanpur, Kushagra grew up in Bengaluru. He did his class 10 at Primus Public School with 99.9%, standing third in the state in ICSE exams, before shifting to Narayana for class 11.

"My attention was primarily on becoming better and consistent in the long run, rather than simply aiming for a top rank. That's it. Our school used to hold JEE Mains pattern tests daily. So we used to provide new questions on a daily basis and I received plenty of practice from that," he said.

He is presently training for the JEE Advanced and is keen to obtain a seat in IIT Bombay for computer science. He studies for about 12-13 hours a day, is able to venture out to play once he gets stressed out, and attempts to resume the pace quite soon after. "I developed my interest in engineering in class 11. I was interested in maths and physics and felt engineering would be a good fit for me," he said.

Amit Kumar Gupta, an engineer and the father of Kushagra, is employed with Alstom Transport India Ltd and his mother, Madhumita Gupta, is a doctor employed with Phillips Healthcare as a senior scientist.

Results were declared on April 18 night.