JEE Main Results 2021 Declared: 44 Candidates Score 100 Percentile, Goutam Das & Tanya Dixit Odisha Toppers

Finally, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the Joint Entrance Exam - JEE Main results 2021 for the fourth and last session. And guess what! As many as 44 candidates have scored 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam this year. Eighteen candidates have shared the top rank.

Rank-1 is jointly held by Gaurab Das (Karnataka), Vaibhav Vishal (Bihar), Duggineni Venkata Paneesh (Andhra Pradesh), Siddhant Mukherjee, Anshul Verma and Mridul Agarwal (Rajasthan), Ruchir Bansal and Kavya Chopra (Delhi), Amaiya Singhal and Pal Agarwal (Uttar Pradesh), Komma Sharanya and Joysula Venkata Aditya (Telangana), Pasala Veera Siva, Karnam Lokesh and Kanchanapalli Rahul Naidu, (Andhra Pradesh), Pulkit Goyal (Punjab) and Guramrit Singh (Chandigarh). 

Goutam Das is the Odisha topper in JEE Main 2021, with NTA score of 99.99 percentile. Tanya Dixit is the state topper in female category in the engineering entrance exam with 99.8 percentile score.

The first phase of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Main was held in February while the second phase was conducted in March. The April and May sessions had to be postponed because of the pandemic and were held from July 20-25 and August 26 to September 2, respectively.

As per reports, over 9.34 lakh candidates had appeared in four editions of JEE-Main. The ranks of the candidates have been released taking into consideration the best of the four NTA scores in accordance with the policy already made by the testing agency. Students can download their scorecards from jeemain.nta.nic.in and nta.ac.in.

It is to be noted that for the first time, this year the JEE-Main exams were conducted in 13 languages including English, Hindi, Gujarati, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

(Video Credits: Editor - Partha Narayan Das, Producer - Sanchita Mondal)