JEE-Main Result 2024: 56 Candidates Get 100 NTA Score, The Highest Ever
A total of fifty-six candidates have achieved the perfect 100 score in the engineering entrance exam?JEE-Mains according to the results announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Wednesday. Among the candidates who scored the perfect NTA?score of?100, 15 are from Telangana, seven each from Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, and six from Delhi.
Two female candidates, Sanvi Jain from Karnataka and Shayna Sinha from Delhi were also among those who scored the perfect 100?per cent.
How NAT score is calculated
According to officials, the NTA score is?not the same as?the percentage of marks obtained.
The ranks of the candidates are released taking into consideration the best of the two NTA scores?in accordance with?the policy already in place.
"NTA scores are?normalised?scores across multi-session papers?and are?based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The marks obtained?are converted?into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees," a senior NTA official explained.
10 lakh candidates appeared for JEE Mains
Over 10 lakh candidates had appeared for the second edition of the crucial exam and according to the NTA, thirty-nine candidates?of?them?were debarred from taking?JEE-Main for three years for using unfair means during the exam.
The examination?was held?in Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
JEE Exam conducted across the world
It?was also conducted?outside India in Manama, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, Kuwait City, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos/Abuja, Colombo, Jakarta, Moscow, Ottawa, Port Louis, Bangkok, Washington D.C., Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Oslo.
IIT Admissions
While the first edition of the exam?was conducted?in January-February, the second edition?was conducted?in April. Based on the results of?JEE-Mains?Paper 1 and Paper 2, the candidates have?been shortlisted?to appear for the?JEE-Advanced exam, the one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
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