With more than 200 of its students making it to the merit list, Delhi Public School, R K Puram, may possibly have the highest number of students cracking the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) among Delhi schools this year.

Nearly 75 students from the school have made it to the different IITs, according to school officials. “This is at par with last year’s results,” Mohammad M Hussein, a physics teacher at the school, said. “We are definitely among the top schools, with the most number of students making it to the IITs.”

With several schools in the city still compiling results, it could not be ascertained as to which school will be sending the most number of students making it to the IITs this year. Sources, however, said the overall results had taken a dip from last year’s total.

Hussein is more certain about the school’s track record when it comes to the Delhi Pre-Medical Test. Thirty out of 67 students have made it to the list this year, bagging eight of the first 13 ranks. Starting with the all-India second rank, the school has seen its students securing the 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 13th ranks.

“For the last four years, our results as far as the DPMT goes have been incomparable,” Hussein said. There is, however, another school that surprised all this year. Not only did 30 of its students make it to the IITs, Modern Vidya Niketan, Faridabad, has also produced the all-India IIT-JEE topper, Nitin Jain. Nearly 430 students appeared for the examination and 141 were able to make it to the merit list. In 2008 too, the school had an impressive number of students cracking the IIT-JEE, but this year’s results surpassed all expectations, managing director Varun Sharma said. “For the last 15 years, we have been sending students to the IITs. At least 15 have made it every year,” he said. The school employs around 25 former IITians and pays them a package of up to Rs 15 lakh per annum each, according to Sharma.

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