India, June 6 -- Allen Career Institute has set a new benchmark in the JEE-Advanced 2026 results, securing All India Rank (AIR) 1 for the third consecutive year. The results were declared by IIT Roorkee on June 1. With this achievement, Allen has now produced the IIT-JEE AIR 1 seven times. The institute has also secured AIRs 1, 2 and 3 together for the second time in its history, after 2016. Leading this was Kota classroom student Shubham Kumar, who secured AIR 1 after scoring 330 out of 360 marks. Allen students Kabeer Chhillar and Jatin Chahar followed closely, at AIR 2 with 329 and AIR 3 with 319 marks, respectively. Allen students secured six positions among the top 10 ranks. Classroom students Arnav Gautam secured AIR 7, Kanishk Jain AIR 8 and Darsh Sikka AIR 10. Overall, 12 Allen students featured in the top 20, and 24 classroom students secured positions in the top 50. Aarohi Deshpande, also from Allen Kota, emerged as the All India Girls Topper with AIR 77 and a score of 280 marks. Yashvardhan, a student of Allen's Online Live Course, secured AIR 52, recording the institute's best result among its online-course students. Five of the seven IIT zone toppers across India are from Allen classrooms. These include the toppers from the Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Bhubaneswar and Roorkee zones. The institute said the result-compilation process is still underway and further selections are expected. Congratulating the students, Allen Career Institute CEO Nitin Kukreja said, "Allen believes in excellence, and these results are a testament to our commitment to student success. Allen has delivered exceptional results in both quality and quantity. Allen has achieved excellent results in every bracket - top 50, top 100, offline, and online. Following the results, there was an atmosphere of excitement at all centres, as Allen students from every corner of the country, from rural areas to metropolitan cities, achieved success. In the last two years, every fourth student admitted to IIT has been from Allen. We are proud of our students, faculty, and the Allen team." According to the institute, its student records have been validated by audit firm EY for the past three years to maintain transparency and authenticity. Allen's previous AIR 1 achievers include Rajit Gupta in 2025, Ved Lahoti in 2024, Chitrang Murdia in 2014, Aman Bansal in 2016, Kartikey Gupta in 2019 and Mridul Agarwal in 2021. htc...