NEW DELHI: A record 56 candidates scored 100 percentile (100 NTA score) in the Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE-Main) 2024, which includes two females Sanvi Jain (Karnataka) and Shayna Sinha (Delhi). The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the combined results of Paper 1 (BE/ BTech) of the January and April sessions on Wednesday night. Another highlight of the results has been the five-year high qualifying percentile at JEE (Main) to be eligible for JEE (Advanced), the entrance test for admission to the sought after 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
State-wise Telangana with 15 candidates in the top scorer list continues to lead for the third consecutive year. Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh with seven each with candidates with 100 percentile is at distant second, followed by Delhi with six aspirants. Of the 14.1 lakh candidates, almost 96% of the aspirants took the test for undergraduate admissions for engineering and architecture programmes in centrally funded technical institutions as well for eligibility to JEE (Advanced) for admissions to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). There are around 24000 seats across the National Institutes of Technology (NITs).
While in the JEE (Main) January session 23 candidates scored 100 percentiles, 33 scored 100 percentile in April session. The 56 toppers include 40 from general category, 10 from the OBC category, six from gen-EWS. However, there are no candidates from the Sc and ST category to manage a 100 percentile score this year.
NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained. The percentiles or NTA scores are normalised across multisession papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The ranks of the candidates are released taking into consideration the best of the two NTA scores in accordance with the policy already in place. Paper 1 is for admission to BTech/ BE programmes in IITs, NITs and centrally funded technical institutions (CFTIs).
Record 56 candidates scored 100 percentile in JEE (Main); JEE (Advanced) qualifying cutoff for IIT admissions on a five-year high
The qualifying percentile at JEE (Main) to be eligible for JEE (Advanced), has registered a five-year-high across categories. The minimum cut-off for general category this year is 93.2, up from 90.7 in 2023, and 88.4 in 2022. The cut-offs for reserved category candidates too recorded a new high – for general-EWS it is now 81.3 from that of 75.6 last year and 63.1 in 2022. Similarly, the minimum qualifying percentile for OBC has risen from 68 (in 2022) and 73.6 in 2023 to 79.6 this year. The biggest jump in the qualifying score has been in the SC and ST categories, with SC’s percentile to be eligible for the IIT-test is 60, up from 51.9 in 2023 and 43 in 2022, while for ST it is 46.6, up from 37.2 in 2023 and 26.7 in 2022.
As against 2,51,673 candidates from JEE (Main) 2023 who qualified for the JEE (Advanced), this year 2,50,284 have qualified to take the JEE (Advanced) with the maximum number of successful candidates coming from Uttar Pradesh followed by Maharashtra and Telangana. The registration for JEE (Advanced) will commence from April 27 and these aspirants will compete for around 17,385 undergraduate seats across the IITs.
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 cities outside India which include Cape Town, Doha, Dubai, Manama, Oslo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos/Abuja, Jakarta, Vienna, Moscow, and Washington D.C, among others.