A record 56 candidates, including two females, achieved 100 NTA score in engineering entrance exam JEE-Main, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Wednesday night.
A five-year high was reached by the qualifying percentile for JEE (Advanced), the entrance exam required to gain admission to any of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). 33 candidates in the April session of JEE (Main) attained a 100 NTA score, compared to 23 candidates in the January session. 40 competitors from the general category, 10 from the OBC category, and 6 from the gen-EWS category make up the 56 toppers. This year, no candidate from the SC or ST categories was able to achieve a 100 NTA score. Officials claim that the NTA score and the percentage of marks earned are not the same. ‘NTA scores are normalised scores across multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The marks obtained are converted into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees,’ a senior NTA official explained. The official further said that 39 candidates were debarred from taking JEE-Main for three years for using unfair means during the exam. Candidates’ ranks are released taking into consideration the best of the two NTA scores in accordance with the policy already in place.
Telangana is leading the state for the third year in a row with 15 candidates on the list of top scorers. Delhi came in second place with six candidates in the top scorer list, followed by Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, each with seven candidates at the 100 percentile. Approximately 96% of the 14.1 lakh applicants qualified to take JEE (Advanced) by taking the exam for undergraduate admissions to engineering and architecture programs in centrally funded technical institutions. The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) have about 24,000 seats. The examination was conducted in 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu) across 571 centres in 319 cities, including 22 outside India (Cape Town, Doha, Dubai, Manama, Oslo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos/Abuja, Jakarta, Vienna, Moscow, and Washington D.C, among others). The qualifying percentile for JEE (Advanced) touched a five-year high across categories. The minimum cut-off for the general category this year is 93.2, up from 90.7 in 2023 and 88.4 in 2022. The cut-off for general-EWS this year is 81.3, up from 75.6 last year and 63.1 in 2022. Similarly, the qualifying percentile for the OBC category has risen to 79.6 from 68 in 2022 and 73.6 in 2023. The biggest jump in the qualifying score has been for the SC and ST categories, with SCs’ percentile touching 60, up from 51.9 in 2023 and 43 in 2022 and that for STs touching 46.6, up from 37.2 in 2023 and 26.7 in 2022. 2,50,284 candidates this year met the qualifying threshold for the JEE (Advanced), with the highest percentage of successful applicants hailing from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Telangana. 2,51,673 JEE (Main) candidates were eligible to take the JEE (Advanced) exam in 2023. On April 27, JEE (Advanced) registration will open. Approximately 17,385 undergraduate seats at IITs will be up for grabs for these candidates.
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