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JEE Mains: 44 candidates score 100 percentile, says Education Ministry

  • 18 students will be sharing the first rank in JEE Mains
  • Over 9.34 lakh candidates appeared for the exam
  • The exam was conducted in 13 different languages

Written by:Aman
Published: September 14, 2021 08:08:04 New Delhi, Delhi, India

The Ministry of Education announced that a total of 44 candidates who appeared in the JEE Mains have score 100 percentile. The statement added that 18 students will be sharing the first rank.

The first rank holders included Gaurab Das (Karnataka), Vaibhav Vishal (Bihar), Duggineni Venkata Paneesh (Andhra Pradesh), Siddhant Mukherjee, Anshul Verma and Mridul Agarwal (Rajasthan), Ruchir Bansal and Kavya Chopra (Delhi), Amaiya Singhal and Pal Agarwal (Uttar Pradesh), Komma Sharanya and Joysula Venkata Aditya (Telangana), Pasala Veera Siva, Karnam Lokesh and Kanchanapalli Rahul Naidu, (Andhra Pradesh), Pulkit Goyal (Punjab) and Guramrit Singh (Chandigarh), PTI reported.

Starting this year, Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Main was conducted four times a year to offer flexibility to students and a chance to improve their scores. The first phase was held in February and the second in March.

The next phases were scheduled for April and May but those were postponed in view of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that raged through the country affecting lakhs.

The third edition was held from July 20-25 while the fourth edition was conducted from August 26 to September 2.

The candidates of the examination have been assigned ranks on basis of the best of four NTA scores, a policy that was set before the examinations were conducted this year.

The examination was conducted in 13 languages — English, Hindi, Gujarati, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

According to PTI reports, more than 9.34 lakh candidates appeared in four editions of JEE-Main.

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