THEBUSINESSBYTES BUREAU
BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 17, 2026
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced the results of JEE Main
January 2026 session, bringing academic pride to Odisha as ALLEN Career
Institute’s Bhubaneswar student Bhavesh Patra secured a perfect 100 percentile
and emerged as the state topper. Nationally, 12 candidates achieved the coveted
100 NTA score, with ALLEN students accounting for a significant share of the
top performers.
Sharing the achievement, Allen Career Institute Bhubaneswar Centre Head
Rajneesh Srivastava told media persons on Tuesday that Bhavesh, a long-term
classroom student of the institute, has demonstrated exceptional academic
consistency and conceptual clarity to reach this milestone. He added that more
than 100 students from the Bhubaneswar centre are expected to score above the
99 percentile, while over 400 students are likely to cross the 90 percentile
mark, reflecting the centre’s strong performance in the first major engineering
entrance result of 2026.
At the national level, ALLEN Career Institute CEO Nitin Kukreja said that
eight of the 12 perfect scorers are from ALLEN. Kota classroom student Kabir
Chhillar secured a flawless 300 out of 300, while Arnav Gautam, Shubham Kumar,
Bhavesh Patra, Anay Jain, Nimay Purohit and Chiranjeeb Kar from classroom
programmes, along with Shreyas Mishra from the online test series, also
achieved 100 percentile. The institute has produced 18 state toppers across the
country, including Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Delhi-NCR,
Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Puducherry and several
northeastern states. The results have been audited and validated by EY India to
ensure transparency and authenticity.
Bhavesh Patra, son of Chartered Accountant Biswajit Patra and Jayashree
Behera, attributed his success to sustained hard work, disciplined study habits
and strong faculty guidance. A resident of Odisha and a classroom student at
ALLEN for the past six years, he began his preparation early and focused on
building conceptual clarity rather than rote learning. He scored 97.6 per cent
in Class X and maintained a rigorous schedule of regular classes, in-depth
study of assignments and consistent test practice.
He emphasised that periodic testing helped him identify weak areas and improve through targeted revision, while effective time management allowed him to balance self-study with classroom learning. Bhavesh is now preparing for JEE Advanced with the goal of securing admission to a premier IIT and pursuing a B.Tech degree.
The outstanding performance of ALLEN Bhubaneswar students in JEE Main 2026 underscores the growing academic ecosystem of the state and highlights the city’s emergence as a competitive hub for engineering entrance preparation.
