Result of the third session of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2021 has been announced. In the third session, 17 students have scored the perfect 100 percentile, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has said. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have the highest number – four each – of toppers.
Originally scheduled for April, 2021, the third session of the national-level entrance test was postponed in view of the Covid pandemic. It was finally held in July. There will be one more session of JEE Mains, after which the all-India merit list will be released. Over 7 lakh students had registered for the entrance test in the third session.
"The examination was conducted at 915 examination centres in 334 Cities [including 12 cities outside India in Baharain, Colombo, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Kualalampur, Lagos, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, and Kuwait]," the NTA said.
"Examination of the 1899 candidates in the flood-affected districts of Kolhapur, Palghar, Ratnagiri, Raigadh, Sangli, and Satara in Maharashtra State who could not appear on 25 and 27 July 2021 was conducted on 3 and 4 August 2021," it further said.
JEE Main is the gateway for admission to some of the top engineering colleges in India, which include the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs). It is also the qualifying exam for JEE Advanced – the IIT admission test.