CUET-UG 2025: Ludhiana's Ananya Jain secures AIR 1, beats 13.5 lakh students
PTC News Desk: Ananya Jain, student of DAV school in Ludhiana district of Punjab has secured All India Rank first in the Common University Entrance Test-Under Graduate (CUET-UG) 2025, the results of which were declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday.
A total 13.5 lakh students appeared in the test for admission to undergraduate programmes in central universities and other institutes.
Jain achieved 100 percentile in Accountancy, Business Studies, Economics, and Mathematics, 99.99 percentile in English, and a cumulative score of 1225.93, making her the all-India topper across five subjects.
Ananya whose father is a chartered accountant and mother a homemaker wishes to pursue her career in economics with an objective to get admission in Delhi University.
“I am now aiming to get admission for graduation in Economics honours at Delhi University. I would like to study either at Hindu College or Lady Sri Ram College,” she said.
Jain had scored 98.8 per cent marks in the Commerce stream in the recent CBSE Board exams and had stood third in Ludhiana district. “I would only advice my peers to maintain consistency. I had started preparing for this exam very early. We should stay connected with our teachers and focus on our own interests to select the right stream,” she said.
- PTC NEWS
