Chinmaya Vidyalaya student Manohar Kumar and his parents in Bokaro on Sunday. Picture by Pankaj Singh

Bokaro boys seem hardwired for engineering success, as AIEEE results declared on Saturday night proved.

The city’s students secured seven out of the top 10 positions of Jharkhand — from first to sixth and the ninth.

The gaps — seventh, eighth and tenth ranks — were filled by students from Ranchi and Jamshedpur.

Aditya Kumar Akash of Delhi Public School (DPS), Bokaro, topped the state with an all-India rank of 56. His IIT-JEE rank was better at 38.

Coming second in the state was city mate Ashutosh Kumar, MGM Senior Secondary School alumnus, with an all-India rank of 75.

The third position went to Bokaro boy Manohar Kumar of Chinmaya Vidyalaya, with an all-India 78.

After this hat-trick came another. The fourth, fifth and sixth positions were also secured by Bokaro boys.

Utpal Kumar of DPS stood fourth, getting an all-India rank of 86; Saurabh Kumar of Chinmaya Vidyalaya and Nishant Kumar Sunny of Bokaro Ispat Vidyalaya stood fifth and sixth with India rankings of 97 and 98. The state’s ninth rank (all-India 192) belonged to Ritwik Srivastawa, also of DPS.

Outside Bokaro, Ranu Vikram of Ranchi’s Greenland Public School stood seventh in Jharkhand and 99 in India. Kundan Krishna of DAV Kapil Dev in the capital stood eighth with an all-India rank of 189. Ajit Kumar of DAV Public School in Bistupur, Jamshedpur, stood tenth in Jharkhand with an all-India rank of 212.

Talking to The Telegraph, topper Aditya said AIEEE was his personal hat-trick. “I stood 38th in IIT-JEE and got 97.4 per cent in Plus Two. And now, AIEEE,” he smiled.

His parents — schoolteacher father Chiranjeevi Pandit, based in Banka, Bihar, and homemaker mother Kumari Sarita — told him to be regular.

“So I banked on three hours of self-study daily, which helped me assimilate what I learnt in school and tuition. I got a sense of what to focus on and what to leave out,” he said.

“Aspirants should make a list of key topics by scanning question papers and reading NCERT books,” he added.

The boy who is clear about his life’s goals — “engineering and innovation” — said his school played a positive role. “If you are around brainy people, you think sharper and score better,” he grinned.