JEE Main results announced, 24 kids secure 100 percentile

Twenty-four candidates secured a perfect 100 in the engineering entrance JEE (Main), the results of which were announced by the National Testing Agency on Saturday.

- Press Trust of India

NEW DELHI:

Seven toppers are from Rajasthan, three each from Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra; two each from Delhi, West Bengal and Gujarat; and one each from Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Two of the toppers are women.

While 21 top-scoring candidates are from the General category, the list includes one candidate each from the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and the Other Backward Classes (OBC) categories.

More than 992,000 candidates had appeared for the second edition of the crucial exam. In the first edition, 1.06 million candidates appeared.

According to National Testing Agency (NTA) officials, NTA scores are not the same as the percentage of marks obtained but normalised scores.