New Delhi: Twenty-three candidates have bagged the perfect 100 score in the engineering entrance exam JEE-Main 2024 with a maximum of them being from Telangana, the National Testing Agency announced on Tuesday.
Over 11.70 lakh candidates had appeared for the first edition of the crucial exam.
Among the candidates who secured an NTA score of 100, seven are from Telangana, two from Haryana, three each from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, two from Delhi and one each from Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
NTA officials clarified that the NTA score differs from the percentage of marks obtained as it is a normalised score.
“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,” PTI quoted a senior official as saying.
JEE Main 2024 session 1 was held in 13 languages i.e. Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
The examination was also held overseas in various locations including Manama, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, Kuwait City, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos/Abuja, Colombo, Jakarta, Moscow, Ottawa, Port Louis, Bangkok, and Washington D.C. Notably, it marked the first time the exam was conducted in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Oslo.
Following the initial edition held in January-February, the second edition of the exam is slated for April. Candidates will be selected based on their performance in both JEE-Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2 to proceed to the JEE Advanced.
The JEE Advanced serves as a gateway for admission to the 23 prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
