CFAL’s top 5 averaged 99.91 percentile in JEE Main 2026 with every student scoring above 99 in all three individual subjects.All five are also Science Olympiad National Top 1% achievers.
What Makes These Five Extraordinary
In JEE Main 2025, approximately 14.75 lakh candidates appeared. Scoring in the 99.8th percentile or above places a student among the top ~2,950 in the entire country. Having five such students from a single institution of 200 in a Tier-2 city is statistically remarkable. But the numbers only tell part of the story.
| THE TOP 5 AT A GLANCE Average percentile: 99.91 All 15 individual subject scores are above 99th percentile All 5 are also NSE Olympiad National/State Top 1% achievers Two of the five have been shortlisted for INAO 2026 (International Astronomy Olympiad) |
Cross-subject consistency is the hallmark. What separates these five from typical toppers is not a single peak score in one subject. Every one of them scored above the 99th percentile in all three subjects. This depth across Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics simultaneously reflects students who genuinely understand science at a fundamental level, not students who have been drilled to maximize marks in one area.
Olympiad + JEE excellence is exceedingly rare. All five of these students also featured in CFAL’s NSE 2025 Olympiad results, with National Top 1% rankings in Science Olympiads.
The Olympiad tests conceptual depth and scientific reasoning in ways that JEE does not. When the same students excel in both, it signals an education that develops the mind, not just exam technique.
They are 2.3% of their batch but represent a 99.8+ concentration that large coaching centres with thousands of students rarely achieve. This is the power of small-batch, depth-first education.
Meet the Top Five
| FIVE STUDENTS. ONE PATTERN. Every one of them scored 99+ in all three subjects. Every one of them also excelled in Science Olympiads. The outcomes reflect a depth-oriented learning environment. |
The Institution Behind the Five
These five students did not emerge from a coaching factory of thousands. They came from CFAL (Centre for Advanced Learning)- an institution of 200 students in Mangaluru, Karnataka. CFAL does not operate on scale. It operates on depth.
Founded in 2004, CFAL’s philosophy is anchored in TLC values: Be Your Best, Passion & Excellence, Wisdom & Compassion, Purpose & Meaning. Small batch sizes mean every student is known. The curriculum emphasizes conceptual understanding over formulaic drilling. And the results: Olympiad and JEE excellence from the same students, year after year, confirm that this approach works.
These five are not isolated outliers. They stand at the top of a cohort of 200 students, with 10 students crossing the 99.5th percentile. Eighteen students crossed the 99th percentile, and 46 scored above the 97th percentile.
Every performance tier grew year-on-year. This is a system that is compounding.
The fact that all five toppers are also Science Olympiad achievers is the strongest signal of what CFAL does differently. Coaching factories can produce JEE toppers. Producing students who simultaneously excel in Olympiads, which test a fundamentally different kind of scientific thinking, requires something more than coaching. It requires education.
Coaching optimizes for a test. Education optimizes the mind. When you optimize your mind, the test takes care of itself.
| “We are not building a coaching centre. We are building an institution combining academic excellence with character formation. — Mr. Vijay Moras, Director, CFAL |
| THE TOP 5 – CFAL JEE MAIN 2026 A Aditya Rao – 99.96 (P: 99.92 | C: 99.95 | M: 99.88) Rishon Fernandes – 99.93 (P: 99.87 | C: 99.99 | M: 99.61) Mrinal D Bhat – 99.90 (P: 99.68 | C: 99.90 | M: 99.82) Abhhi Sannayya – 99.89 (P: 99.77 | C: 99.93 | M: 99.70) Lauren Marian Patrao – 99.89 (P: 99.67 | C: 99.34 | M: 99.94) Average: 99.91 percentile | All 15 subject scores above 99th percentile All 5 are also Science Olympiad achievers | 2 shortlisted for INAO 2026 |
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