The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the results for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2024 Session 2 Paper 1 (BTech and BE) assessment. Candidates can access their results on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. This year, a total of 56 candidates have achieved a perfect 100 percentile.
Among them, 15 candidates scored 100 percentile, with seven each from Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, six from Delhi, and five from Rajasthan. Notably, Sanvi Jain from Karnataka and Shayna Sinha from Delhi are the two female candidates who have achieved the perfect score, continuing the trend of increasing female participation and success in engineering entrance exams.
Comparatively, last year saw 43 candidates achieving full marks.
The top 2.5 lakh candidates who have qualified by scoring equal to or more than the cut-off percentile for their respective categories can apply for the IIT entrance test JEE Advanced. The application process will begin on April 27 on jeeadv.ac.in.
The qualifying percentile for the JEE Advanced touched a five-year high across categories. The minimum cut-off for the general category this year is 93.2, up from 90.7 in 2023 and 88.4 in 2022. The cut-off for general-EWS this year is 81.3, up from 75.6 last year and 63.1 in 2022.
Similarly, the qualifying percentile for the OBC category has risen to 79.6 from 68 in 2022 and 73.6 in 2023. The biggest jump in the qualifying score has been for the SC and ST categories, with SCs’ percentile touching 60, up from 51.9 in 2023 and 43 in 2022 and that for STs touching 46.6, up from 37.2 in 2023 and 26.7 in 2022.
