Jun 15, 2025 07:43 PM IST

Despite challenges, Rohit Kumar achieves 12,484th rank in NEET UG, balancing work and research for his medical aspirations.

A younger man promoting cell phone covers on a cart in Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur has set an instance by scoring 549 marks within the NEET UG examination. Rohit Kumar, has secured 12,484th rank on the all India stage and hope to safe admission in a authorities medical faculty in Jharkhand.

Physics Wallah Alakh Pandey congratulated Rohit Kumar, a cell phone cowl vendor, who ranked 12,484 in NEET UG(Instagram/physicswallah)

In a video shared by Physics Wallah, founder and CEO Alakh Pandey visited Kumar at his cart to congratulate him. Kumar revealed that he was a part of Physics Wallah’s Ummeed batch, which provides free teaching to all college students aiming for NEET 2025

Worked at medical retailer

Kumar revealed that his father used to work at a vegetable market. After twelfth, he dropped out of faculty to organize for NEET. During COVID pandemic, he had labored at a medical retailer and was impressed to check medication.

He informed Pandey, that in his preparation for NEET, he used to work all day promoting cellphone covers at his stall after which research until 3 am for the examination. The subsequent day, he would get up at 7am and return to work.

In one other video, Alakh Pandey gifted a physician’s coat to the brilliant scholar and congratulated him on his success.

NEET-UG 2025 end result

Mahesh Kumar from Rajasthan clinched the all-India topper place, with Utkarsh Awadhiya from Madhya Pradesh securing the second rank. Avika Aggarwal from Delhi was named the feminine topper, ending fifth general.

Krishang Joshi from Maharashtra and Mrinal Kishore Jha from Delhi secured the third and fourth ranks, respectively.

This yr noticed a drop within the variety of qualifying candidates in comparison with final yr’s 13.15 lakh. A complete of twenty-two.09 lakh college students appeared for the examination this yr, barely fewer than final yr’s 23.33 lakh.

Uttar Pradesh led the chart for qualifying candidates with over 1.70 lakh, adopted by Maharashtra (over 1.25 lakh) and Rajasthan (over 1.19 lakh).