Gujarat girl Nishita Purohit from Surat tops AIIMS MBBS exam 2017 nationally

New Delhi: Nishita Purohit(18) ,a national level basketball player from Surat in Gujarat has topped this year’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) MBBS entrance test , which was held on May 28. Nishita plans to study cardiology or radiology at AIIMS, New Delhi. Nishita topped with a perfect 100 percentile score. Other than Nishita, there is just one another student, Archit Gupta, who has scored 100 percentile in the exam.

A total of 28,4,737 candidates appeared in the exam for 700 seats in 7 AIIMS across the country. A total of 4,095 candidates have qualified the examination, with the top 100 spread over 22 states and union territories. They are now quaified and are eligible for counseling session in AIIMS.

“For the first time in its history, AIIMS New Delhi will be admitting 100 students for this session,” Dr Ashok Kumar Jaryal, head of exams, AIIMS said.

Nishita scored 91.4% marks in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 board this year.Nishita had joined the tutorial for medical exams AIIMS and NEET.

Her father is IIT alumnus Nirmal Indu, who is now the president of a private firm in Odisha, and mother Himanshu is a housewife who has done graduation in pharmacy.

Nishita on her success said she attended around six hours of coaching classes daily and later used to self study for six hours.

Nishita says she did not open a facebook account but used WhatsApp for contacting teacher to clear concepts related to the exam.

The AIIMS today declared the results of its MBBS online entrance test after a government panel rejected allegations of question paper leak.

The results are now available on the official website — aiimsexams.org and also on the websites of other six AIIMS.