Every year, hundreds of thousands of candidates appear for the JEE Advanced exam and only a select few make it to the list. The entrance test shortlists candidates for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). The top 2.5 lakh JEE Main qualified candidates become eligible to register for the IIT entrance test.
While IITs conduct the JEE Advanced, the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) does the counselling. Every year, as many as six rounds of JoSAA counselling are conducted for admission to the IITs after the JEE Advanced results are declared.
The 2023 topper of JEE Advanced scored 341/ 360, which was comparatively lower in 2022 as R K Shishir, the JEE Advanced topper in 2022, scored 314 out of a total of 360. It was the lowest in five years. A similar trend was seen in female toppers as the marks scored by CRL 56 in JEE Advanced 2023 was 298/ 360, which was higher than the CRL 16 from 2022’s score of 277 out of 360.
Interestingly, the Covid batch of 2020 scored the most in the five-year period between 2019 and 2023. While the JEE Advanced 2020 CRL 1 holder Chirag Falor scored 352/ 360, Kanishka Mittal scored 315 marks out of 360 and bagged CRL 17.