The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday announced the results of the first round of the JEE-Main held last month.

The six toppers from the February exams were — Saket Jha from Rajasthan, Pravar Kataria and Ranjim Prabal Das from Delhi, Guramrit Singh of Chandigarh, Siddhant Mukherjee from Maharashtra and Ananth Krishna Kidambi from Gujarat, the NTA said.

 

As NTA scores are percentile scores, these six students scored in the 100th percentile for each of the six sessions of the first round of the exam, held between February 24 and 26.

 

The top girl candidate was Komma Sharanya from Telangana, who received an NTA score of 99.999, while Vishwadev from Haryana was the top scorer among candidates with disabilities.

 

The JEE-Main is an entrance test for admission to undergraduate engineering courses at the National Institutes of Technology (NIT) and other Central, State and private institutions, and is also used as an eligibility test for JEE-Advanced, which is an entrance examination for the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).

Exam being held 4 times

The examination is being held four times this year, once each in February, March, April and May.

 

Students are free to attempt the examination as many times as they want, with each candidate’s best score being taken into consideration for the final ranking.

 

All-India rankings and cut-off scores for JEE-Advanced eligibility will only be calculated after all four rounds of the examination are over.

 

In the February session, more than 6.2 lakh students attempted the examination, including 4.35 lakh boys and 1.85 lakh girls. For the first time, the examination was conducted in 13 different languages.