The National Testing Agency (NTA) made a significant announcement on Wednesday night, revealing the results for the Joint Entrance Examination-Main (JEE-Main). A notable achievement was the emergence of 56 candidates, including two females, who achieved a perfect 100 NTA score in the examination. This accomplishment was split between the January and April sessions, with 23 candidates achieving a perfect score in the January session and 33 in the April session. According to a senior NTA official, the NTA scores are normalized across multi-session papers, based on the relative performance of all examinees in one session. The marks obtained are then converted into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees.
The breakdown of the top scorers includes 40 candidates from the general category, 10 from the OBC category, and six from the general-EWS category. However, no candidates from the SC and ST categories reached the 100 NTA score mark this year. Additionally, a total of 39 candidates have been banned from taking the JEE-Main for three years due to employing unfair means during the examination.
Telangana maintained its dominance for the third consecutive year, with 15 candidates among the top scorers. This was followed by Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, each with seven candidates, and Delhi with six candidates.
Out of the 14.1 lakh candidates who appeared for the exam, nearly 96% aimed to qualify for the JEE (Advanced), which serves as the entrance test for admission to the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and other centrally funded technical institutions offering undergraduate engineering and architecture programs.
The JEE-Main examination was conducted in 13 languages across 571 centers in 319 cities, including 22 centers outside India. Notably, the cut-off for qualifying scores is at a five-year high across categories. For the general category, the qualifying percentile rose to 93.2, up from 90.7 last year and 88.4 in 2022. Similarly, the qualifying percentile for the general-EWS category increased to 81.3 from 75.6 last year and 63.1 in 2022. For the OBC category, the qualifying percentile rose to 79.6 from 68 in 2022 and 73.6 in 2023. The most significant increase was observed in the qualifying scores for the SC and ST categories, with SCs reaching a percentile of 60, up from 51.9 in 2023, and STs reaching 46.6, up from 37.2 in 2023.
This year, a total of 2,50,284 candidates qualified for the JEE (Advanced), with the highest number of successful candidates hailing from Uttar Pradesh, followed by Maharashtra and Telangana.
Registration for the JEE (Advanced) is scheduled to begin on April 27, with approximately 17,385 undergraduate seats available across the IITs.
