JEE Main 2021 results declared: Six score perfect 100

Six students scored 100 per cent in JEE-Mains, while Udhav Varma topped the engineering entrance exam in Karnataka with 99.99 per cent.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results of the February session of the JEE Main exams on Monday night.

The six who score a perfect 100 were Saket Jha from Rajasthan, Pravar Kataria and Ranjim Prabal Das from Delhi, Guramrit Singh from Chandigarh, Siddhant Mukherjee from Maharashtra and Ananth Krishna Kidambi from Gujarat.

Suhail Shivaram from Karnatka stood fifth in the ST category 99.88 per cent score.

A total of 6.52 lakh candidates had registered for the entrance examination this year, 95 per cent of whom had appeared in the BE/BTech papers and 81.2 per cent appeared in B.Arch/B.Planning paper.

This was the first time that the exam was conducted in 13 languages — Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English and Gujarati.

NTA scores are normalised scores across multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session, Sadhana Parashar, Senior Director (Exams), NTA said.

“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,” Parashar said.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) had conducted the February session examination from February 23 to 26, 2021. The exam was conducted at over 800 centres in 331 cities, including nine centres abroad — Colombo, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Kuwait.

Starting this year, the exam will be conducted four times a year to offer students a chance to improve their scores. The next phases will be held in March, April and May.

“After February, March, April, and May sessions of JEE (Main)-2021 Exam, the ranks of the candidates will be released taking into consideration the best of the four NTA scores in accordance with the policy. The candidates have the choice to appear in one, two, three, four examinations for admission,” Parashar said.

Results of were announced on the National Testing Agency's (NTA) official website at jeemain.nta.nic.in.

The agency had conducted the JEE main examination from February 23 to 26, 2021.

How to check results:

Step 1: Visit the official website jeemain.nta.nic.in

Step 2: Click on the tab that reads JEE Main 2021 Result/Scorecard

Step 3: Key in your credentials in the box and login

JEE Mains 2021 results will be displayed on the screen.