Delhi duo among top 18 rankers in JEE Main, seven students among 100 percentile scorers
The National Testing Agency declared the JEE Main result 2021 post midnight on Tuesday at the official website - jeemain.nic.in.
Predict your top engineering college admission chances based on your JEE Main All India Rank & NTA Score.
Use NowPress Trust of India | September 15, 2021 | 07:45 PM IST
NEW DELHI: Seven candidates from the national capital have scored 100 percentile in JEE-Main with two of them sharing the top rank with 16 others from different parts of the country, according to the result announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
Ruchir Bansal, a student of Sanskriti School, Chankyapuri is among the top rankers. An elated Bansal said he has managed the feat in his third attempt at the crucial engineering entrance exam. DPS Vasant Kunj student Kavya Chopra is one of the two female candidates who have bagged the top rank this year.
Also Read | NEET, JEE Main 2021 scam, paper leak, cheating, arrests: The story so far
Other students from Delhi who have scored 100 percentile are Pratham Agrawal, Sidhharth Kalra, Suren, Pravar Kataria and Ranjim Prabal Das. A record 44 candidates have scored 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam JEE-Main this year while 18 candidates have shared the top rank.
Last year, 24 candidates had scored 100 percentile. 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. Over 9.34 lakh candidates appeared in four editions of JEE-Main.
A total of 2.52 lakh common candidates had appeared for all four editions of the exam. A total of 6.58 lakh male candidates had appeared for the exam while the number of female candidates appearing for the exam was 2.80 lakh.
Also Read | Study in India? 400 Afghan students' visas cancelled, says group
The ranks of the candidates have been released taking into consideration the best of the four NTA scores in accordance with the policy already made. NTA scores are normalised across multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session.
Write to us at news@careers360.com .
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- Lok Sabha Election 2024: Over 50 students, teachers arrested over past 5 years
- Diversity and inclusion ‘all on paper’, writes a transgender activist on experience at work
- ‘This is terrible’: West Bengal teachers who fought recruitment scam dismayed by cancellation
- More women joining engineering with scholarships, affirmative action in admission, placements
- BTech in Marathi: How PCCOE Pune is showing the way
- ‘We hope to admit students from outside Kerala’: CET Trivandrum principal
- IIIT Bangalore plans to launch BTech programmes, says director
- COMEDK UGET ‘model exam’ for engineering colleges: Executive Secretary
- Top IT companies have cut thousands of jobs in past months, reports on headcounts show
- Project to attract foreign students to IITs still a work-in-progress