Jharkhand street vendor turns role model after securing well in NEET

A young lad who used to sell mobile phone covers on a cart in Jamshedpur of Jharkhand turned out to be a role model by securing 549 marks in NEET UG exam. Rohit Kumar, has secured rank 12,484 at all India level and thinks that he would be going for admission in a government medical college of Jharkhand.

Physics Wallah posted a video where founder and CEO Alakh Pandey went to Kumar's cart to interact with him. Kumar revealed that he belonged to Physics Wallah's Ummeed batch, which is providing free coaching to all the candidates appearing for NEET 2025

Kumar explained that his father would earlier work in a veg market for his previous job. He had left college life after 12th due to preparation for NEET. He was working in the medical shop during the COVID pandemic and was motivated to become a doctor.

He informed Pandey, that he would perform day time work and prepare for NEET from his mobile covering shop and study from 3 am until the exam time. He would wake up at 7 am itself on the very next day and join duty.

Doctor's coat was presented to the student by Alakh Pandey in one of the videos and wished him good luck for becoming a successful individual.

Mahesh Kumar from Rajasthan was all-India rank holder to place Utkarsh Awadhiya from Madhya Pradesh on the second rank. Avika Aggarwal from Delhi was announced a female topper and placed at the fifth rank.

Krishang Joshi of Maharashtra and Mrinal Kishore Jha of Delhi got the third and fourth rank, respectively.

This year there was a decline from last year's 13.15 lakh eligible applicants. This year, 22.09 lakh students appeared in the test, short of last year's 23.33 lakh by a hair.

Uttar Pradesh had the highest with more than 1.70 lakh eligible candidates, then Maharashtra with more than 1.25 lakh and Rajasthan with more than 1.19 lakh.