JEE- Main Results: Telangana Tops Country

Within just 6 days after holding the exam, the National Testing Agency (NTA) released the results for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Mains on Friday and 24 students scored 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam, which was deferred twice in view of Covid-19 pandemic.

The JEE-Mains exam held for admission to engineering colleges was conducted from September -6, amid strict restrictions and precautions like social distancing measures, in view of the pandemic.

Of all the states, Telangana has maximum 100 percentile scorers at 8, Delhi is at the second spot with 5 hundred percentile scorers followed by Rajasthan 4, Andhra Pradesh 3, Haryana 2) and one candidate each from Gujarat and Maharashtra.

A total of 8.58 lakh candidates had registered for the JEE-Mains exam which enables admission to engineering courses in IITs, NITs and Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) but only 74 per cent of them appeared for the exam.

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The exam was held taking all the precautions like staggered entry and exit for candidates, sanitisers at the gate, distribution of masks and maintaining distance as candidates queued up. The officials also increased the number of examination centres, arranged alternate seating plans, ensured fewer candidates per room to check the spread of Covid-19.

In Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the respective state governments had assured students that they would provide transportation to candidates. Meanwhile, a group of IIT alumni and students also launched a portal to provide transport facilities to exam centres for the candidates.

There had been a growing demand for postponing JEE-Mains and medical entrance exam NEET too amid the rising number of Covid cases across the country. However, the Supreme Court had earlier dismissed a plea seeking postponement of the two exams, saying a “precious year” of students cannot be wasted and life has to go on.

Based on the results of the JEE-Mains Paper-1 and Paper-2, the top 2.45 lakh candidates will be eligible to appear for the JEE-Advanced exam, which is a one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). JEE-Advanced is scheduled for September 27.