Five Delhi students have scored 100 percentile in the JEE-Mains exams, the results of which were announced late on Friday. The top scorers from the national capital include Chirag Falor, Gurkirat Singh, Laksh Gupta, Nishant Aggarwal, and Tushar Sethi, who are among the 24 candidates who have scored 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam.

While Telangana has a maximum of 100 percentile scorers at eight, Delhi is at the second spot with five 100 percentile scorers followed by Rajasthan at four, Andhra Pradesh at three, Haryana at two, and one candidate each from Gujarat and Maharashtra.

The JEE-Mains exams were conducted from September 1-6 amid stringent precautions and social distancing measures due to COVID-19. The entrance exams were postponed twice before in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Around 74% of registered candidates who had registered for JEE-Mains appeared for the exam even as the attendance figures dipped from 94.32% in the January session, news agency PTI reported. According to the Ministry of Education, out of 8.58 lakh applicants, 6.35 lakh appeared for the engineering entrance test.

Staggered entry and exit for candidates, sanitisers at the gate, distribution of masks and maintaining distance as candidates queued up, were among the scenes witnessed at the exam centres across the country.

Based on the results of the JEE-Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2, the top 2.45 lakh candidates will be eligible to appear for the JEE-Advanced exam, which is a one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). JEE-Advanced is scheduled to take place on September 27.