Barnala, June 14 -- Keshav Mittal, 17, from Tapa town in Punjab's Barnala district secured all-India rank (AIR) 7 in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) UG, scoring 680 marks out of a total of 720, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Saturday.

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This was his first attempt at the medical entrance exam that the NTA conducts every year and he has emerged as the highest scorer from Punjab.

Keshav, who studied at DM Public Senior Secondary School, Karar Wala, Bathinda district, undertook coaching at a private institute in Chandigarh, where he maintained a study routine of eight to nine hours daily.

His father, Dr Prabodh Mittal, is a homeopathic doctor in Tapa, while his mother, S...