City boy Dr Vaibhav Garg, who has just completed his MBBS degree from Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Sector 32, topped the country with the all-India rank 1 in the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) PG exam, the result of which was announced recently.
The 23-year-old who scored a perfect 100 percentile is a resident of Dhakoli in Zirakpur. He has also studied in Chandigarh from the beginning, doing his 10th grade at St Johns High School in Sector 26 and 12th grade at Sri Guru Gobind Singh Collegiate Public School in Sector 26. He was ranked 69th in the All India Rank when he appeared for the NEET UG exam in 2018.
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Talking about what he wants to do now, Garg has his sights set on moving to Delhi and wants to study medicine in one of the top colleges here even as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) conducts its own exam for postgraduate courses which will be held around November and which he also plans to attempt.
He is the first doctor in his family. His father, Sanjeev Kumar Garg, is an engineer with Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited, and his mother, Manju Garg, is a teacher at DAV School Surajpur. His elder sister, Aditi Garg, also studied engineering like her father and works with Amazon.
He chose to study medicine instead of engineering because of his fascination with the human body. “I was studying in the ninth grade and then in the higher classes, I was also in awe of the human body. It is the perfect machine that God has designed and I was curious to learn more about it.”
In his speech, he offered advice to anyone who wants to pass the exam: “The entire fifth year of medical school should be spent preparing for this exam. We also have practicals, but some students choose to start preparing after they finish, which puts them at a disadvantage.” While doing practicals, he spent four to five hours a day on it, but before the exam he studied up to 12 hours a day. He didn’t have many hobbies outside of his studies and preparation, but he enjoyed going for walks to refresh his mind, even when the exam was approaching.
Garg was also among the students who felt nervous after the last-minute postponement of the NEET PG exam on June 23, but he said he was prepared and was able to attempt the exam well.
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