NEW DELHI: As many as 20 applicants scored the 100th percentile in JEE (Main)’s January 2023 engineering admissions session, the results of which were announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday evening in a record five days. The 20 toppers include 14 from the general category, four from OBC and one each from the Gen-EWS and SC category.
There are no female candidates in the top 20 for this session. The topper woman is Meesala Pranathi Sreeja with a score of 99.99 NTA. In JEE (Mains) 2022, there were 24 applicants, including two women, who scored in the 100th percentile. In the first session last year, there were 14 toppers with the 100th percentile of which one was a female candidate.
While Md Sahil Akhtar is PwD topper with 99.98 NTA rating, SC topper is Deshank Pratap Singh with 100 NTA rating and ST topper is Dheeravath Thanuj with 99.99 rating in January session of quest year which ended on February 1st. The next session of JEE (Main) 2023 will be conducted in April.
Among the toppers this time are four candidates each from Telangana (Abhineet Majety, Bikkina Abhinav Chowdary, Guthikonda Abhiram and Vavilala Chidvilas Reddy) and Rajasthan (Apurva Samota, Dnyanesh Hemendra Shinde, Krish Gupta and Mayank Soni), followed by three from UP (Deshank Pratap Singh, Nipun Goel and Rishi Kalra), two from Gujarat (Kaushal Vijayvergiya and Suthar Harshul Sanjaybhai) and one each from Andhra Pradesh (Duggineni Venkata Yugesh), Chhattisgarh (Dhruv Sanjay Jain), Delhi (Amogh Jalan), Kerala (Ashik Stenny), Bihar (Gulshan Kumar), Tamil Nadu (NK Vishwaajith) and West Bengal (Soham Das).
An education ministry official said, “After the pandemic, in order to bring the academic calendar back to its schedule, the ministry had announced the undergraduate admission calendar for 2023 well in advance in December 2022 and around the same.” effort, even the results are being announced in a record five days”.
The NTA score is not equal to the percentage of grades obtained. Percentile scores, or NTAs, are normalized across multi-session papers and based on the relative performance of all exam takers in one session. The final rankings of the candidates are released taking into consideration the better of the two NTA scores.
The exam was conducted in 13 languages - Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu – in 574 centers in 287 cities (including 17 cities outside the ‘India).
Four candidates took the test in Indian languages and scored over 99 NTA, with the topper in this category Pansuriya Kashyap Ashokbhai (Gujarati) scoring 99.96 percentile.
NTA has withheld the scores of 50 candidates who are under review. The cases of these candidates are submitted to a separate commission. Their NTA scores will be declared once the committee finalizes its report.
As first reported by TOI, attendance was 95.8% for Paper 1 (BE/BTech), the highest recorded for the exam, and for the first time, women’s enrollment exceeded 30%. (Paper 1 and Paper 2 together).
There are no female candidates in the top 20 for this session. The topper woman is Meesala Pranathi Sreeja with a score of 99.99 NTA. In JEE (Mains) 2022, there were 24 applicants, including two women, who scored in the 100th percentile. In the first session last year, there were 14 toppers with the 100th percentile of which one was a female candidate.
While Md Sahil Akhtar is PwD topper with 99.98 NTA rating, SC topper is Deshank Pratap Singh with 100 NTA rating and ST topper is Dheeravath Thanuj with 99.99 rating in January session of quest year which ended on February 1st. The next session of JEE (Main) 2023 will be conducted in April.
Among the toppers this time are four candidates each from Telangana (Abhineet Majety, Bikkina Abhinav Chowdary, Guthikonda Abhiram and Vavilala Chidvilas Reddy) and Rajasthan (Apurva Samota, Dnyanesh Hemendra Shinde, Krish Gupta and Mayank Soni), followed by three from UP (Deshank Pratap Singh, Nipun Goel and Rishi Kalra), two from Gujarat (Kaushal Vijayvergiya and Suthar Harshul Sanjaybhai) and one each from Andhra Pradesh (Duggineni Venkata Yugesh), Chhattisgarh (Dhruv Sanjay Jain), Delhi (Amogh Jalan), Kerala (Ashik Stenny), Bihar (Gulshan Kumar), Tamil Nadu (NK Vishwaajith) and West Bengal (Soham Das).
An education ministry official said, “After the pandemic, in order to bring the academic calendar back to its schedule, the ministry had announced the undergraduate admission calendar for 2023 well in advance in December 2022 and around the same.” effort, even the results are being announced in a record five days”.
The NTA score is not equal to the percentage of grades obtained. Percentile scores, or NTAs, are normalized across multi-session papers and based on the relative performance of all exam takers in one session. The final rankings of the candidates are released taking into consideration the better of the two NTA scores.
The exam was conducted in 13 languages - Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu – in 574 centers in 287 cities (including 17 cities outside the ‘India).
Four candidates took the test in Indian languages and scored over 99 NTA, with the topper in this category Pansuriya Kashyap Ashokbhai (Gujarati) scoring 99.96 percentile.
NTA has withheld the scores of 50 candidates who are under review. The cases of these candidates are submitted to a separate commission. Their NTA scores will be declared once the committee finalizes its report.
As first reported by TOI, attendance was 95.8% for Paper 1 (BE/BTech), the highest recorded for the exam, and for the first time, women’s enrollment exceeded 30%. (Paper 1 and Paper 2 together).
