Off social media, skipped parties, studied non-stop: UAE students share how they cracked JEE Advanced

Off social media, skipped parties, studied non-stop: UAE students share how they cracked JEE Advanced

Considered one of the world's toughest exams, JEE allows its applicants to get into some of the premiere educational institutions in India

Published: Sun 11 Sep 2022, 8:45 PM Last updated: Sun 11 Sep 2022, 9:10 PM

Students from the UAE have performed exceptionally well in India's Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)- Advanced, with one securing an all-India rank of 569.

"I am feeling pretty good about it," said Mohammed Faisal. "It feels like all my hard work for the last two years has been rewarded."

Considered one of the world's toughest exams, the JEE is a standardised test that allows its applicants to get into some of the premiere educational institutions in India. It is conducted in two parts- JEE Mains and JEE Advanced. Of the more than 155,000 students who wrote the exam this year, only a little over 40,000 students were successful.

Faisal was earlier declared the outside India topper of the JEE Mains exam in August by scoring in the 99.97 percentile. He started his preparation in Grade 11 and said he had made several sacrifices to put in the required time. "I think the biggest sacrifice I made was that I didn't go for the Expo," he said.

According to the youngster,