The results of the Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) were announced on Friday evening. Candidates can check their results on the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

While Telangana has maximum 100 percentile scorers at 8, Delhi is at the second spot with 5 hundred percentile scorers followed by Rajasthan (4), Andhra Pradesh (3), Haryana (2 ) and one candidate each from Gujarat and Maharashtra.

The exam for admission into engineering colleges across the country, was held from September 1-6. This year, the April session was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

At least 74 per cent candidates who had registered for JEE-Mains appeared for the exam last week amid strict precautions in view of COVID-19 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.