NEW DELHI: With 100 percentile scorer Ridhi Kamlesh Kumar Maheshwari from Karnataka is the lone female among the 43 toppers in the e Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE-Main) 2023.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the combined results of the January and April early morning on Saturday. Telangana has the highest number of toppers with 11 coming from the State, followed by five each from Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. Of the 11.6 lakh candidates, over 94.8% of the aspirants took the test for undergraduate admissions to centrally funded technical institutions as well for eligibility to JEE (Advanced).
While in the JEE (Main) January session 20 candidates scored 100 percentiles, 23 scored 100 percentile or 100 NTA score in (JEE-Main) 2023 April session. The 43 toppers include 32 from general category, seven from the OBC category, three from gen-EWS and one from SC category.
Last year two female candidates scored 100 percentiles. However, Ridhi is the lone female in this elite list this year. A native of Rajasthan Ridhi, her family moved to Mumbai before shifting to Bangalore for her JEE preparation. A student of Geethanjali Olympiad School in Belandur, Ridhi has been preparing for JEE since class 11. “It is a bit of a disadvantage when you start from scratch in class 11, while others in the class would have started from class 8. But with hard work, it is achievable,” she said. Ridhi’s brother graduated from IIT Kanpur. “I have heard a lot of stories from my brother about IITs, which has motivated me. Not only is it the best place academically, it also helps shape our personality. While I had thought about a backup option in commerce, my brother identified my strengths in maths and said I will be able to crack JEE,” she said.
Ridhi is elated about her 100 percentile. “It is not that girls are bad at Maths. It is just that there are not as many girls as boys in the field. Had the ratio been proportionate, there would definitely be more girls in the list. For instance, there is only one girl for 9 boys in my class,” she said. Ridhi said she loves Maths and the decision to pursue engineering is to be with the subject.
NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained. The percentiles or NTA scores are normalised across multisession papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The ranks of the candidates are released taking into consideration the best of the two NTA scores in accordance with the policy already in place. Paper 1 is for admission to BTech/ BE programmes in IITs, NITs and centrally funded technical institutions (CFTIs).
There are 6.29 lakh candidates who have registered for both the January and April sessions of which 5.94 lakh appeared. A little over 30% of the total 11.6 lakh registered candidates are female candidates. Category-wise 37.9% each are from general and OBC, while 10.5% candidates are from gen-EWS category.
The examination was conducted in 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu) across 457 centres in 325 cities (including 23 cities outside India). The Cities of Brasilia, Toronto, Berlin, Paris, Oslo were added for the first time.
Based on the results of JEE-Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2, the top 2.6 lakh candidates will be eligible to appear for the JEE (Advanced) exam, which is a one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the combined results of the January and April early morning on Saturday. Telangana has the highest number of toppers with 11 coming from the State, followed by five each from Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. Of the 11.6 lakh candidates, over 94.8% of the aspirants took the test for undergraduate admissions to centrally funded technical institutions as well for eligibility to JEE (Advanced).
While in the JEE (Main) January session 20 candidates scored 100 percentiles, 23 scored 100 percentile or 100 NTA score in (JEE-Main) 2023 April session. The 43 toppers include 32 from general category, seven from the OBC category, three from gen-EWS and one from SC category.
Last year two female candidates scored 100 percentiles. However, Ridhi is the lone female in this elite list this year. A native of Rajasthan Ridhi, her family moved to Mumbai before shifting to Bangalore for her JEE preparation. A student of Geethanjali Olympiad School in Belandur, Ridhi has been preparing for JEE since class 11. “It is a bit of a disadvantage when you start from scratch in class 11, while others in the class would have started from class 8. But with hard work, it is achievable,” she said. Ridhi’s brother graduated from IIT Kanpur. “I have heard a lot of stories from my brother about IITs, which has motivated me. Not only is it the best place academically, it also helps shape our personality. While I had thought about a backup option in commerce, my brother identified my strengths in maths and said I will be able to crack JEE,” she said.
Ridhi is elated about her 100 percentile. “It is not that girls are bad at Maths. It is just that there are not as many girls as boys in the field. Had the ratio been proportionate, there would definitely be more girls in the list. For instance, there is only one girl for 9 boys in my class,” she said. Ridhi said she loves Maths and the decision to pursue engineering is to be with the subject.
NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained. The percentiles or NTA scores are normalised across multisession papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The ranks of the candidates are released taking into consideration the best of the two NTA scores in accordance with the policy already in place. Paper 1 is for admission to BTech/ BE programmes in IITs, NITs and centrally funded technical institutions (CFTIs).
There are 6.29 lakh candidates who have registered for both the January and April sessions of which 5.94 lakh appeared. A little over 30% of the total 11.6 lakh registered candidates are female candidates. Category-wise 37.9% each are from general and OBC, while 10.5% candidates are from gen-EWS category.
The examination was conducted in 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu) across 457 centres in 325 cities (including 23 cities outside India). The Cities of Brasilia, Toronto, Berlin, Paris, Oslo were added for the first time.
Based on the results of JEE-Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2, the top 2.6 lakh candidates will be eligible to appear for the JEE (Advanced) exam, which is a one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).