Mumbai's Madhav Viradiya Scores Perfect 100 Percentile In JEE Main 2026 January Session

Mumbai: Bagging the perfect score amidst over 13 lakh students who appeared for Joint entrance examination (JEE) mains held in January this year, Madhav Viradiya credited the success to his father as he followed the gospel – to focus on work and not the results. Madhav now holds the dream to enter into the world of Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay to pursue Bachelors in technology (B. Tech).

Out of the 12 students nationwide who secured 100, Madhav Viradiya is the only student from Mumbai, Maharashtra while hailed from other states, as per the merit list released by the National testing agency on Monday.

Admitting that the preparation phase was demanding at times, Madhav said, “I limited social media consumption and extracurricular activities for the past two years. I played cricket during lunch breaks, that helped.”

His daily routine included coaching classes from 1 pm to 5 pm, followed by self-study sessions in the evening and early morning, adding up to nearly ten hours of study everyday. “Most of the conceptual preparation was completed during coaching hours, while revision and practice was done at home,” he said.

Currently in Class 12, Madhav had been preparing for JEE Advanced for the past two years at Narayana. “I was mainly focused on JEE Advanced preparation. Since JEE Main is a subset of Advanced, I didn’t prepare separately for it for most of the time,” he told The Free Press Journal. In the month leading up to the January attempt, he revised previous years’ question papers and focused on practising multiple-choice questions, especially in Chemistry.

Balancing board examinations alongside competitive exam preparation required careful planning. “After my practical exams ended in January, I focused on boards. Since my main subjects are PCM, I mostly had to revise for JEE and prepare separately only for English,” he said.

JEE mains is one of the most competitive exams in the country. The exam was held across 658 centres in 326 cities, including 15 international centres in cities like – Singapore, Doha, Kuwait city, Kuala Lumpur, and Washington.

Looking at the gender bifurcation of the applicants, nearly 50 percent of the ratio belonged to women. A total of 13,55,29 appeared for the exams in which 4,67,817 were female and 8,87,47 were male in session 1.