JEE (main) results 2025: 24 candidates get 100 NTA scores; 110 unfair methods are detected

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Twenty-four candidates got a perfect 100 in the engineering portal JEE (main), and the result was announced by the National Testing Agency on Saturday.

Seven top figures in Rajasthan are from Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Two are from Delhi, West Bengal and Gujarat; one from Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

Two of them are women.

While the 21 candidates with the highest score come from the general category, the list includes one candidate.

More than 992,000 candidates appeared in the second edition of the key exam. In the first edition, 10.61 million candidates appeared.

According to data from National Testing Agency (NTA) officials, NTA scores differ from the percentage of scores obtained, but scores are normalized.

A senior official explained that NTA scores are standardized scores in multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who took the exam at a meeting.

The scores obtained will be converted to a 100-0 scale for each candidate meeting, the official added.

According to the results of JEE (main) Paper 1 and Paper 2, candidates will be shortlisted for JEE (Advanced), a one-stop exam for 23 Prime Ministers of India’s Institute of Technology (IIT).

“For candidates who took the two exams, the best NTA scores for both meetings were announced,” the official said.

The exam is conducted in 13 languages ​​- Assam, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

The second edition of JEE (Main) is conducted in 531 unique examination centers in 300 cities, including 15 Manama (Bahrain) outside India (Qatar), City of Doha (Qatar), Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Muscat (Oman), Oman (Oman), Riad (Saudiabia) (Malaysia), Kathmandu (Nepal), West Java (Indonesia), Washington (USA), Lagos (Nigeria) and Munich (Germany).

In the first edition, the NTA scores for 39 candidates were not announced because they were found addicted to unfair practices. During the second edition, 110 candidates were found to be involved in unfair means, including forging of documents related to the exam, and therefore, the results were not announced.

“In addition to these candidates, biometric details or other personal information are used to perform identity verification due to differences in the photos.