The results of the JEE Main 2020 exam, which was held from September 1 to 6 amid the Covid-19 pandemic  was announced recently. Eight students from Telangana, five from Delhi, four from Rajasthan, and three from Andhra Pradesh were among the 24 students who scored the perfect 100 percentile. Chirag Falor, Gurkirat Singh, Laksh Gupta, Nishant Aggarwal, and Tushar Sethi were among the toppers from Delhi.

NTA DG Vineet Joshi said, “This is the fastest that the NTA has declared the results for this exam. Also, this was the exam that was conducted with the maximum number of shifts.”

Chukka Tanuja from Telangana was the only girl to score a perfect 100.

The others from the state who got the 100 percentile were Chagari Kousshal Kumar Reddy, Deeti Yeshash Chandra, Morreddigari Likhith Reddy, Rachapalle Shashank Anirudh, Rongala Arun Siddardha, Shiva Krishna Sagi, and Vadapalli Arvind Narasimha.

Anant Vohra, scored the highest, 99.84 percentile, in the persons with disabilities category.

An NTA official added, “The results have been compiled on the basis of JEE exams held in January and September.”

Out of the 8.58 lakh candidates, who had registered for the JEE Main 2020 exam for the engineering entrance exams, as many as 6.35 lakh took the test. 

Source: Hindustan Times

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