Meet Parth Bhardwaj, who despite scoring 300 marks out of 300 Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2022 and getting an All India Rank of 3, have no intention of becoming an engineer. Parth has secured 99.975 percentile in session 1 of engineering entrance exam and 100 percentile in second attempt. However, the 18-year-old has different plans for himself. His main aim is to become an IAS officer.
The 18-year-old said that during his early years of school he was more interested in sports and despite attending engineering classes with FIITJEE in class six, he started his actual preparation from class 11. “I was not much inclined towards academics and was more interested in sports. Before 11th standard, I was national level quiz and state level football player. I was not much into studies at that time,” says the boy from Rajasthan.
Parth too has never really been interested in engineering and is eyeing to crack the UPSC Civil Services exam. He also says that although engineering is considered a safe option, it is not. “Engineering is considered a safe option but it is still not that safe in terms of career prospects and opportunities. Around 30-40 lakh students have appeared for CBSE 12th and around 9 lakh students have appeared for JEE Main. Numbers in JEE Still high enough, I would say that, although there has been research that shows that around 80 per cent of engineers in India are not suitable for any job,” he told News18.com.
Now an alumnus of CBSE’s Cambridge Court High School, Jaipur, he completed his class 12 this year, securing 94.4 per cent marks. While his father is in the government transport department, his mother is a homemaker.
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Talking about his preparation strategy, he says that in the second attempt of JEE Main, in which he scored full marks, it took him only three to four days to prepare. He had to prepare for JEE Advanced from class 11th onwards and focused on JEE Main for session 1 in April this year.
“My main focus has always been on JEE Advanced, however, I am not targeting any particular IIT. Will see which college and course gives me more opportunities regarding UPSC CSE. College will be a secondary focus. I was preparing for JEE Advanced from class 11th and started mains preparation from April,” said Parth, who is one of the top 24 candidates in JEE Main 2022.
“I was studying the previous year papers and did not study the things that came in the main exam. For example, questions from some specific chapters of NCERT Physics and Chemistry are asked only in JEE Main and not in Advanced. Such chapters I learned by heart only about two months before the exam,” he adds.
As for his exam attempt strategy, he claims that he had tested all possible options and took the one that best suited him. “Since Mathematics is the longest section, I started with that first. I tried to finish it in 75 minutes and in remaining one hour I attempted physics and chemistry. Then I took the remaining time to recheck and go through the maths section. For JEE Advanced, I am practicing only mock tests and previous year question papers right now,” said Parth.
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