JEE Main result declared:

24 students get 100

percentile; most from
Telangana, Delhi,
Rajasthan
The best performance was
registered by two states --
Telangana and Rajasthan. Four
candidates from each state had
scored 100 percentile in 2019.
Express News Service

Twenty four candidates scored 100

percentile in the Joint Entrance
Examination (Main) this year, with the
largest number of toppers coming from
Telangana. Among the remaining toppers,
five are from Delhi, four from Rajasthan,
three from Andhra Pradesh, two from
Haryana, and one each from Gujarat and
Maharashtra.

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Last year, too, the same number of

candidates were ranked first. However,
the best performance was registered by
two states — Telangana and Rajasthan.
Four candidates from each state had
scored 100 percentile in 2019.

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The National Testing Agency (NTA)

announced the results late Friday night, in
less than a week after the entrance test
finished. Since 2019, JEE (Main) is being
conducted twice a year. The first cycle
was held in January. The second cycle of
the entrance test this year was delayed
because of the pandemic. It was finally
held in 12 shifts over six days from
September 1 to 6.

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The results announced Friday night

reflect the best performance of
candidates who appeared for the test in
January and September.

Attendance in the second cycle seems to

have suffered because of the pandemic.
It fell by 20 percentage points over the
first test held in January. While 94.32 per
cent of registered students appeared for
the exam held in January 2020,
attendance fell to 74 per cent for the
exam held earlier this month. Out of 8.58
lakh unique applicants, 6.35 lakh
appeared for the engineering entrance
test in September.

The conduct of the JEE (Main) was mired

in controversy with some students
demanding that the examination be put
off, given the rising COVID cases in the
country. The entrance test had already
been postponed twice before.

Despite student protests, the government

went ahead with the examination, arguing
that careers cannot be put on hold
indefinitely. The Supreme Court had
also dismissed a plea for
postponement, arguing that the “career
of the students cannot be put in
jeopardy”. It is the first national entrance
test to be held amidst the pandemic. Next
is NEET on September 16.

JEE (Main) is the qualifying exam for

appearing for the JEE (Advanced). The
top 2.5 lakh candidates of JEE (Main) can
appear for JEE (Advanced) which is the
entrance test for admission to the 23 IITs.

Toppers from January attempt

included, Divyanshu Aggarwal was
born in a family of doctors and was
expected to follow medicine at first but he
claims that it was his love for
mathematics that made him chose the
engineering stream. Another 100
percentile scorer, Akhil Jain is set to be
the first engineer in his family. Born and
brought up in Kota, Akhil was always
inclined towards academics. Among the
top scorers are twin brothers from Delhi
who had topped the exam by scoring
100 and 99.9 percentile score. They used
to prepare together and have a love for
attempting exam. Both said they would
appear for JEE Advanced and aim for
admission at IIT.

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