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JEE Success Story: It is said that if someone in the family progresses, then the whole family starts moving accordingly. A similar story is of a girl who secured 12th rank in the JEE exam. Her brother Ankit also secured sixth rank in the IIT JEE exam of the year 2007. She earlier wanted to become a doctor, but by passing the JEE exam, she brought glory to the whole family. The girl we are talking about is Sumegha Garg.
Sumegha Garg belongs to Punjab's Bhatinda district. The Garg family is proud of their daughter Sumegha. She not only secured 12th rank in IIT-JEE 2011 exam but also topped among girls. She also repeated history for her family. Her brother Ankit had secured 6th rank in IIT-JEE in the year 2007. He was inspired by his brother's success to pursue engineering from IIT. Sumegha was expecting a good rank, but she never thought that she would top among girls.
Sumegha did BTech from IIT Delhi
After cracking the JEE exam, she got a BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi. According to her LinkedIn profile, she then got a PhD degree in Computer Science from Princeton University. After doing BTech, she has also been a visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Apart from this, she has also worked as a Rabin Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.
Now she does this work
Sumegha, who got 12th rank in JEE 2011, is currently working as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University in America. Sumegha's family is originally from Mudki village near Ferozepur, where her grandfather used to be a commission agent in the local grain market. Her mother Urmila Devi, who is a biology teacher, used to say that earlier Sumegha wanted to become a doctor but then she decided to crack IIT. Sumegha has always made her mark as an all-rounder in her life. She is a very talented girl, who has also been excellent in sports.
Girls can perform better in any field.
She believed that girls can perform better than boys in any field and there is no task in the world that girls cannot complete. Sumegha used to say that girls should trust their abilities and compete with boys. This will not only increase their confidence, but will also prove that girls are no longer behind anyone in studies and other fields.
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