“It feels far from reality,” says Dhruv Advani who secured an All India Rank of 5 by scoring 715/720 or with a percentile of 99.68 in the recently-released NEET UG 2023 results. Taking his grandfather and aunt as an inspiration, Dhruv embarked on his NEET journey. Dhruv is the only candidate from Karnataka to secure a place in the top 10.
Both his parents are established in the corporate sector holding PhDs from IIM Bangalore. Dhruv says his parents never pressurised him. “My parents made a good environment in the house that helped me to share the sightliest amount of issues I felt while studying,” he said.
Calling himself a classroom learner, Dhruv says he pays proper attention in class and clears doubts then and there. This skill has avoided him to have a backlog at the last moment. He developed an interest in biology from class 5th and now aspires to join AIIMS. While sharing his strategies, he said, “Reading NCERT is important to clear the exam, mock questions, conceptual clarity of important topics and test series questions played a major role in success.”
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In CBSE class 12th examination, Dhruv scored 497 out of 500, that is, 99.4 per cent. He will also represent team India in the International Biology Olympiad to be held on July 3 in Abu Dhabi. While preparing, he tried to develop strategies that suit his need and mood as well. For instance, he shared that in physics, fuel dynamics was quite a challenging topic for him. On the other hand, he found inorganic chemistry quite “annoying” as it was factually heavy, hence rote learning was the only solution. “I tried to learn such facts through mnemonics and devised a fun way to revise them,” he said.
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Dhruv who has an interest in neuroscience, and oncology wants to explore the domain of research as well. As a guide to NEET UG 2024 aspirants, he said, “Looking at the syllabus repeatedly might give stress to the aspirants but it is better to divide, make short goals with deadlines, do test series and mock tests to get a grasp of exam pattern.” For the same, he enrolled himself in Aakash BYJU’s and tried to link and connect all the topics he read in his book and prepared for.
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