New Delhi: Nine candidates have scored a perfect 100 in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) - Mains, the results of which were announced on Friday by the HRD Ministry's National Testing Agency.
The toppers for the engineering entrance exam include Delhi boy Nishant Agarwal, Nisarg Chadha from Gujarat, Haryana's Divyanshu Agarwal, Landa Jitendra and Thadavarthi Vishnu Sri Sai Sankar from Andhra Pradesh, Akhil Jain and Parth Dwivedi from Rajasthan, Rongala Arun Siddardha and Chagari Koushal Kumar Reddy from Telangana.
A total of 8.69 lakh students, including 6.04 lakh male and 2.64 lakh female and three transgenders, had appeared for the exam conducted in six shifts from January 7-9, a senior official said.
While JEE-Mains is conducted for admission to engineering colleges across the country, JEE-Advanced is for the ones seeking admission to IITs. It is mandatory to clear JEE-Mains to be eligible to appear for JEE-Advanced.
How to check results
Students who had appeared for JEE Main Result 2020 can download their results from the official websites jeemain.nic.in and jeemain.nta.nic.in. Enter your application number and date of birth at the website followed by your security pin to login. JEE Main Result 2020 can be checked after logging in.
Based on the results of the Joint Entrance Examination (Main), admission to various engineering colleges, including the National Institutes of Technology (NIT), will be held.
The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JOSAA) will begin the counselling process after the results of JEE Advanced are also declared. Keep a close tab on www.josaa.nic.in.
The score of the JEE (Main) paper 2 is considered for admission to the NIT. After the results are out, allotment process will begin.