JEE Main 2021: 17 candidates score 100 percentile
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The third session of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2021 result has been announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday.
According to NTA, 17 students have been awarded 100 percentile, reported news agency PTI. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have the highest number – four each – of toppers.
The perfect scorers included Karnam Lokesh, Duggineni Venkata Paneesh, Pasala Veera Siva and Kanchanapalli Rahul Naidu from Andhra Pradesh, Vaibhav Vishal from Bihar, Anshul Verma from Rajasthan, Ruchir Bansal and Pravar Kataria from Delhi, Harsh and Anmol from Haryana, Gaurab Das from Karnataka, Polu Lakshmi Sai Lokesh Reddy, Madur Adarsh Reddy and Velavali Venkata from Telangana and Pal Aggarwal and Amaiya Singhal from Uttar Pradesh.
Originally scheduled for April, 2021, the third session of the national-level entrance test was postponed in view of the Covid pandemic. It was finally held in July. There will be one more session of JEE Mains, after which the all-India merit list will be released. Over 7 lakh students had registered for the entrance test in the third session.
"The marks obtained are converted into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees. NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained," a senior official said.
Starting this year, the exam will be conducted four times a year to offer flexibility to students and a chance to improve their scores. The first phase was held in February and the second in March.
"The examination was conducted at 915 examination centres in 334 Cities [including 12 cities outside India in Baharain, Colombo, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Kualalampur, Lagos, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, and Kuwait]," the NTA said.
Final session for JEE Main 2021 would be conducted from August 26 onward. JEE Main 2021 July session was conducted over four days in two slots each. Over seven lakh students had registered for the examination.