JEE Mains declared: 14 scored 100 pc in Paper 1

New Delhi: Around 14 students have scored 100 percent in the result of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE Mains), the B.E./B.Tech paper  declared on Tuesday by the  National Testing Agency (NTA).  According to the testing agency, the results of the 2nd paper, of B.Arch/B.Planning will be declared later.The Paper one of JEE Mains was conducted on.

New Delhi: Around 14 students have scored 100 percent in the result of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE Mains), the B.E./B.Tech paper  declared on Tuesday by the  National Testing Agency (NTA). 

According to the testing agency, the results of the 2nd paper, of B.Arch/B.Planning will be declared later.The Paper one of JEE Mains was conducted on January 22, 23, 24, 28 and 29 this year.

According to the NTA, 14 people obtained a score of 100 in the paper, with five students from Rajasthan; two students each from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh; one student each from Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana obtaining the full marks.

Ayush Singhal, Kushagra Gupta, Daksh, Harsh Jha, Rajit Gupta, Shreyas Lohiya, Saksham Jindal, Saurav, Vishad Jain, Arnav Singh, Shiven Toshniwal, Sai Manogna Guthkonda, Om Prakash Behera and Bani Brata Majee were the students who secured a score of 100, according to the list released by the NTA.

A total of 12,58, 136 people appeared for the exam, according to the agency.

Almost double the number of men, as compared to women, appeared for the exam, with 8.3 lakh men giving the first paper and only 4.2 lakh women appearing for it. Whereas, only one candidate identifying as ‘Third gender’ (Transgender) appeared for Paper 1.

The biggest section of people who appeared for the exam were from the Other Backward Classes (OBC), as a total of around 4.9 lakh students from that category appeared for the exam. The General category section had the second highest number of students appear, with 4.6 students in that category appearing.