JEE-Main: Top 2 positions for Andhra boys

Bhogi Suraj Krishna from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, emerged as the topper of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Main as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the results of the nation-wide test on Monday.

Andhra Pradesh’s K V R Hemant Kumar Chodipilli grabbed the second position in the all-India merit list of the candidates who qualified in the nation-wide test held earlier this month.

Parth Laturai from Rajasthan came third.

Each of the top three JEE-Main qualifiers secured 350 marks out of a total of 360 in the test.

Their all-India ranks, however, varied as examiners compared their performance under a tie-breaking formula.

In case there is a tie in scores, the final assessment of the performance of such candidates is decided looking at their scores first in Mathematics paper and then Physics. Candidates obtaining higher marks will be given a “better rank”.

If the scores in the two individual subjects are also the same, the ratio of the positive marks and negative marks obtained by the candidate is considered to award the rank.

“Candidates having higher absolute value of the ratio will be given a better rank,” the CBSE said.

A total of 11,35,084 students had registered for the JEE Main held in pen and paper mode at 113 centres on April 8 while the computer-based test was held on April 15 and April 16 at 258 cities across the country. As many as 2,31,024 students out of over 11 lakh JEE-Main aspirants were declared qualified for appearing in the JEE-Advance.

While the JEE-Main is conducted for admissions to the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other centrally-funded technical institutions, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and some other top premier technical institutes admit students to BTech programmes on the basis of their scores in JEE-Advance and their scores in Class XII board examination.

According to CBSE, a total of 1,11,275 students qualified for JEE-Advance in general category with cut-off being at 74. The number of Other Backward Classes (OBC) students appearing in the JEE-Advance reached 65,313 with cut-off being 45. A total of 34,425 students belonging to Scheduled Caste qulaified for the JEE-Advance with cut-off reaching 29. The number of Scheduled Tribe students qualifying for the JEE-Adavance was 17,256 with cut-off at 24.

In the list of top 22 JEE-Main qualifiers, four students hailed from Andhra Pradesh; three from Telangana; two each from Haryana and Delhi; one each from Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Bihar. A total of eight students from Rajasthan figured in the top 22 list of successful JEE-Main candidates.