Medical entrance exam NEET’s result was announced on Friday night, with Odisha’s Soyeb Aftab bagging the top rank scoring 100%, reported PTI. Delhi girl Akansha Singh secured the second rank, reported PTI quoting National Testing Agency officials.

A total of 7,71,500 candidates have qualified the exam for which over 13.66 lakh candidates had appeared.

Tripura has the highest number of qualifying candidates (88,889) followed by Maharashtra (79,974).

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The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) was conducted on September 13 amid strict measures in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The admissions to MBBS course in 13 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, will also be done through NEET this year following the amendment in National Medical Commission Act, 2019, passed by Parliament last year.

The test was offered in 11 languages — English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu — this year. Based on the initial report, more than 77 per cent aspirants took the test in English, around 12 per cent in Hindi and 11 per cent in other languages.

The exam was earlier postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the government decided to go ahead with it, despite opposition by a section, to mitigate any further academic loss.