pune sankalp gaur brought pride to the city when he emerged as the national topper in the iit jee main 2015 examination another boy giridhar shyamkumar from the city came third the second rank was bagged by tanuz kaza from mumbai thirteen lakh students from all over the country took the examination that was conducted in the online and pen and paper mode in april the central board of secondary education cbse released the ranks of this exam on wednesday morning the ranks were declared based on 60 weightage to the jee main score and 40 to the standard xii percentage of all five subjects sankalp who scored 345 marks in the examination is a dav public school pune student he scored 9780 in the standard xii examination conducted by cbse his father mukul is an iit alumnus from roorkee with a mechanical engineering degree giridhar who topped pune in the standard xii exams with 98 is a kendriya vidyalaya southern command student he has set his sight on joining iit bombay for its computer science engineering branch i scored 321 marks in the iit jee main exam in the advanced format i was ranked 84 during the exam preparation my focus was on concept clearance i never skipped any concept from the syllabus and understood it well i also solved various question papers before the examination registration and fillingin of choices in joint seat allocation authority 2015 portal begins only after cbse announces jee main 2015 paper1 and paper2 ranks the allocation will roll out the admission process to the 87 institutes including 31 national institutes of technology nits 18 indian institutes of information technology iiits 17 indian institutes of technology iits18 government funded technical institutions gftis and indian school of mines ism durgesh mangeshkar director of iitians prashikshan kendra pune said the ranks represent the overall performance of a student in jee main and standard xii marks it indicates the overall progress of the student we are happy to have contributed to gaurs success mangeshkar said 34000 seats are offered in the nationallevel colleges via these ranks besides every unaided engineering college in india offers 15 of its seats through the allindia quota using these ranks he said study regularly avoid distractions toppers success mantra sankalp gaur the city teen who topped the iit jee main 2015 examination speaks to toi about his approach to his studies for two years q did you expect to top the rankings a it was a pleasant surprise to find that i had topped the allindia ranking of the iit jee main 2015 examination i had the highest score but i was not sure if i would top the country as the standard xii marks are also considered for the rankings i am elated about my performance q what is your ambition a i want to join iit bombay which looks easy after this rank but my aim is to do pure physics and pursue nuclear or atomic physics eventually i will