Nine candidates have scored a perfect 100 in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) - Mains, the results of which were announced on Friday, 17 January, by the HRD Ministry's National Testing Agency.
The toppers for the engineering entrance exam include Delhi boy Nishant Agarwal, Nisarg Chadha from Gujarat, Haryana's Divyanshu Agarwal, Landa Jitendra and Thadavarthi Vishnu Sri Sai Sankar from Andhra Pradesh, Akhil Jain and Parth Dwivedi from Rajasthan, Rongala Arun Siddardha and Chagari Koushal Kumar Reddy from Telangana.
A total of 8.69 lakh students, including 6.04 lakh male and 2.64 lakh female and three transgenders, had appeared for the exam conducted in six shifts from 7-9 January, a senior official said.
While JEE-Mains is conducted for admission to engineering colleges across the country, JEE-Advanced is for the ones seeking admission to IITs.
It is mandatory to clear JEE-Mains to be eligible to appear for JEE-Advanced.