New Delhi, February 13: The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Tuesday that twenty-three candidates have achieved a perfect score of 100 in the engineering entrance exam JEE-Main, with the majority hailing from Telangana. This comes as over 11.70 lakh candidates appeared for the first edition of the crucial exam.
Among the candidates securing 100 NTA scores, 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 NTA score does not equate to the percentage of marks obtained but rather represents normalized scores. “NTA scores are normalized 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,” explained a senior official.
The examination was conducted in multiple languages including Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. It was also conducted internationally in various cities 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 was conducted for the first time in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Oslo.
While the first edition of the exam took place in January-February, the second edition is scheduled for April. Based on the results of JEE-Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2, candidates will be shortlisted to appear for the JEE-Advanced exam, which serves as a gateway for admission to the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
