355 out of 360
JEE Advanced is the second stage of India's engineering entrance system, taken only by candidates who clear JEE Main, and it is designed so that nobody finishes it comfortably. In 2024 Lahoti scored 355 out of 360, which India.com reports as the highest mark ever recorded in the IIT Delhi zone. For scale, the previous year's national topper, Vavilala Chidvilas Reddy, took first place with 341.
The first stage had already been emphatic. In JEE Main 2024 he scored 295 out of 300 for All India Rank 119, a result that would be the achievement of a lifetime in most households and that reads, in his case, as a warm-up. His school record runs the same way: 98.6 per cent in Class 10 and 97.6 per cent in Class 12.
The olympiad years
The competition record starts early and it is not an engineering record. India.com reports that he placed second in the International Mathematics Olympiad while in Classes 5 and 6, and won a gold medal at the International Junior Science Olympiad in Class 8. Olympiad selection is a different filter from an entrance examination: it rewards depth on unfamiliar problems rather than speed across a syllabus.
Candidates who arrive at JEE Advanced from that route tend to have already met the kind of question that cannot be pattern-matched. It is one reason the very top of the rank list is rarely a surprise to anyone who follows school mathematics competitions in India.
Kota, and three to four hours
Lahoti prepared in Kota, the Rajasthan city whose coaching institutes have become shorthand for the entire Indian entrance economy. The received image of Kota is of a day with no hours left over. His account is not that. 'I devoted three to four hours for self-study daily,' he told India.com, on top of the institute's own schedule.
The second number he gives is the more revealing one: in routine practice tests he was scoring 332 to 340. The final 355 was therefore not a spike but the top of a distribution he had been sitting in for months. He also disengaged from social media across the two-year preparation, a discipline that recurs in almost every Indian topper interview to the point of cliche, and which is nonetheless what the candidates keep saying.
The headline his family got
The story travelled in India under a particular framing: that Lahoti's father works for a company owned by Mukesh Ambani. Yogesh Lahoti is a construction manager at Reliance Jio; his mother, Jaya Lahoti, is a homemaker. It is an ordinary salaried household attached, at one remove, to the most-covered business name in the country, and Indian digital media has learned that the name draws clicks.
What the father actually said is better than the framing. 'It is just like a miracle that my son has scored the highest ever marks in the history of JEE-Advanced,' he told reporters. Miracle is the wrong word for a decade of olympiads and two years in Kota, but it is the right word for how such a result lands in a family that did not expect it.
What is documented, and what is not
Firm: 355 marks out of 360 in JEE Advanced 2024, reported as the highest in the IIT Delhi zone; All India Rank 119 and 295 out of 300 in JEE Main 2024; 98.6 per cent in Class 10 and 97.6 per cent in Class 12; second place in the International Mathematics Olympiad in Classes 5 and 6 and a gold medal at the International Junior Science Olympiad in Class 8; coaching in Kota; his father Yogesh Lahoti a construction manager at Reliance Jio and his mother Jaya Lahoti a homemaker; a home in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Not documented: his birth year and age, the school he attended, and, notably, which institute and branch he chose after the result. Reports circulating online place him in computer science at IIT Bombay, which is where the first rank almost always goes, but the source used for this page does not say so and this page will not assert it. His current status is likewise unstated.
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| 인물 | 국가 | 이정표 | 나이 / 기록 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ved Lahoti | 인도 | 2024년 JEE Advanced 수석, 360점 중 355점 | — |
| Chitrang Murdia | 인도 | 2014년 JEE Advanced 전 인도 1위 | — |
| Kalpit Veerwal | 인도 | 2017년 JEE Main 360점 만점, 전 인도 1위 | — |
| Pranav Goyal | 인도 | 2018년 JEE Advanced 전 인도 1위 | — |
| Vavilala Chidvilas Reddy | 인도 | 2023년 JEE Advanced 전 인도 1위 | — |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- 355 out of 360 in JEE Advanced 2024, reported as the highest mark in the IIT Delhi zone
- All India Rank 119 with 295 out of 300 in JEE Main 2024
- Second in the International Mathematics Olympiad in Classes 5 and 6; gold at the International Junior Science Olympiad in Class 8
- From Indore; father Yogesh Lahoti works for Reliance Jio, mother Jaya Lahoti is a homemaker
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- Birth year and age are not stated
- Which institute and branch he joined after the result is not stated in the source used here
- The school he attended is not named
- Nothing is documented about what he has done since 2024
Questions people ask about Ved Lahoti
What did Ved Lahoti score in JEE Advanced?
355 marks out of 360 in 2024, reported by India.com as the highest ever recorded in the IIT Delhi zone.
What was his JEE Main rank?
All India Rank 119 in JEE Main 2024, with 295 marks out of 300.
How old is Ved Lahoti?
No source consulted for this page gives his birth year or his age.
Where is he from?
Indore, in Madhya Pradesh. He prepared for the examination in Kota, Rajasthan.
What does his father do?
Yogesh Lahoti is a construction manager at Reliance Jio. His mother, Jaya Lahoti, is a homemaker.
Did he go to IIT Bombay?
The source used here does not say which institute or branch he chose. That claim appears elsewhere online but is not documented in the coverage consulted for this page.
How many hours a day did he study?
He told India.com he devoted three to four hours a day to self-study, alongside his coaching in Kota, and scored 332 to 340 in routine practice tests.
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Sources
- Meet Ved Lahoti, topped IIT JEE Advanced; Mukesh Ambani is his father's employer — India.com, 2025-01-18
- Meet IIT-JEE Advanced topper Vavilala Chidvilas Reddy (cited for the 2023 topper's score) — India.com, 2025-01-22
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
