Parth Mandar Vartak from Mumbai secured All India Rank 4 in JEE (Advanced) 2025 with an impressive score of 327 out of 360, achieving a perfect score in mathematics. Despite rigorous preparation, he maintained balance by playing tabla and table tennis. Parth, an academic all-rounder with 98% in Class XII, aspires to study computer science at IIT-Bombay.
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