The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results on 24th April, 2024, and that a record 56 candidates, among them two females, scored a perfect 100 NTA score in the JEE-Main engineering entrance exam. The qualifying percentile for JEE (Advanced), the admission test for the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), reached a five-year peak.
In the January session of JEE (Main), of 2024, 23 candidates scored a perfect 100 NTA score, while 33 achieved the same in the April session of 2024. Among the 56 top scorers, 40 are from the general category, 10 from the OBC category, and six from the gen-EWS category. This year, in 2024, no candidates from the SC and ST categories scored a 100 NTA score. Officials declared that the NTA score is different from the percentage of marks obtained.
A number of 39 candidates have been barred from participating in JEE-Main for three years due to the use of unfair means during the exam. In line with existing policies, candidates’ ranks are determined based on the best of their two NTA scores.
Telangana remains the leading state for the third year in a row, with 15 candidates among the top scorers. Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh each have seven candidates who scored a 100 percentile, placing them a distant second. Delhi follows with six candidates making the top scorer list.
Out of 14.1 lakh candidates, nearly 96 percent appeared in the test for undergraduate admissions to engineering and architecture programs in centrally-funded technical institutions and also to qualify for JEE (Advanced). Dakesh Mishra scored AIR 2. His father Sanjay Mishra, is an engineer and his mother works in the telecom sector. Dakhesh was a regular classroom student at Allen Career Institute Pvt Ltd. for three years, and by securing 100 percentile score and a score of 300 out of 300 he achieved All India Rank in JEE Main Examination.
The examination was held in 13 languages—Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu—at 571 centers across 319 cities, including 22 international locations such as Cape Town, Doha, Dubai, Manama, Oslo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos/Abuja, Jakarta, Vienna, Moscow, and Washington D.C.
The qualifying percentile for JEE (Advanced) has reached a five-year high across various categories. In 2024, the minimum cut-off for the general category is 93.2, an increase from 90.7 in 2023 and 88.4 in 2022. For the general-EWS category, the cut-off has risen to 81.3, up from 75.6 last year and 63.1 in 2022. The OBC category’s qualifying percentile also increased to 79.6, compared to 68 in 2022 and 73.6 in 2023.
The most significant increase in the qualifying scores occurred in the SC and ST categories. The SC category’s percentile rose to 60, up from 51.9 in 2023 and 43 in 2022, while the ST category’s percentile increased to 46.6, up from 37.2 in 2023 and 26.7 in 2022. This year, 250,284 candidates qualified for the JEE (Advanced), with the highest number of qualifiers coming from Uttar Pradesh, followed by Maharashtra and Telangana. In comparison, 251,673 candidates from the JEE (Main) had qualified for JEE (Advanced) in 2023.
Registration for JEE (Advanced) will open on April 27, 2024, and the candidates who qualified will be competing for approximately 17,385 undergraduate seats available across the IITs.