R Aravind, a Thanjavur candidate, has secured 710 marks in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). He is ranked 43rd in the country.
Arvind, a student of Blossom Public School, has cleared NEET in his very first attempt. His goal is to get admitted in Thanjavur Medical College.
“My mother did Pharmacology in Thanjavur Medical College. Since I was in 8th standard, my mother used to tell me about it whenever we went through college. She wanted me to go to college as a legacy. I started preparing for NEET in class 11 itself. Since I could not go out anywhere, I used most of my time for NEET preparation,” he said.
After completing the syllabus, he started working on the NEET exam papers of 2019 and 2020. “He said it was an easy paper and so I solved them. In the last two months I used flash cards. I aligned my preparation with NCERT. The main focus was on NCERT and stick with it for facts,” he said.
“In the last few days I used to do a lot of tests.. I used flash cards to revise the notes for the last two months. I expected the marks I got. I suspected that I had made mistakes in two questions and when I checked at home I had made mistakes in those two questions,” he said.
His mother Velambal, who is currently employed as an LIC employee, said that he had prepared on his own.
Her husband Ravichandran is an assessment officer in the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.
Arvind’s sister is pursuing her third year at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi.