JEE Main 2021 results declared, 6 candidates receive 100 NTA score

The results of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main conducted from February 23 to 26, 2021, were declared on Monday and six candidates scored perfect 100 in engineering entrance exam, PTI reported, quoting officials of the National Testing Agency.

The perfect scorers are Pravar Kataria and Ranjim Prabal Das from Delhi, Guramrit Singh from Chandigarh, Saket Jha from Rajasthan, Sidhanth Mukherjee from Maharashtra and Ananth Krishna Kidambi from Gujarat.

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. NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained,” a senior official said, PTI reported. 

This year, a total of 6.52 lakh candidates had registered for the entrance examination, 95 per cent of whom had appeared in the B.E/B.Tech papers and 81.2 per cent appeared in B.Arch/B.Planning paper.