New Delhi, July 17 -- Aryan Gupta, the Punjab boy who secured AIR 1 in the national level medical entrance test shared the primary motivation behind his dream. NEET UG 2026 All India Rank 1, who hails from Punjab's Ludhiana, revealed that the tragic loss of his grandmother motivated him to aspire to be an oncologist.

Aryan Gupta secured an exceptional percentile of 99.9999, with a score of 715 out of 720 in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2026 exam while Panshul Bansal from Haryana secured AIR 2 with the same percentile.

In an interview with PTI, he said, "I secured AIR 1, I scored 715 out of 720, my father and mother are doctors... I worked hard, I would not get sleep, but it is feeling surreal now, l...