JEE Main Results 2024: Cut- offs increase, record 56 candidates score 100 percentile

THE NATIONAL Testing Agency ( NTA) Wednesday released the Joint Entrance Examination ( JEE) Main 2024 result for the April session.

The cut- off scores for various sections of candidates were increased this year, with the highest increase being for the Economically Weaker Section category, which jumped from last year’s 63.11 to 75.62 this year.

A total of 56 candidates — 13 more than last year — have received 100 NTA score in Paper 1 ( BE/ Btech), of which two are girls.

Out of a total 9.24 lakh candidates registered, 8.2 lakh appeared for the JEE Main 2024 exams, held in January and April.

In the January session, a total of 23 had reached the 100 percentile mark.

Like last year, Telangana has reported the highest number of candidates scoring 10 0 percentile. A total of 15 students from the state scored the top place this year, followed by Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, who have 7 students each with 100 percentile.

However, states like West Bengal, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, who had a topper each last year have not gotten any this time.

Total number of unique candidates registered in both sessions ( January/ April) of the JEE main 2024 were 1476557, of which 1415110 appeared for the exams. This time, 1067959 out of 1179569 appeared for the session 2 exams, out of which 377921 were general students, 134 465 were general EWS, 416440 were OBC- NCL, 103422 were SC and 35711 were ST candidates.

This time, for general category candidates, the cut off for JEE ( Advanced) was 93.23 which increased from last year’s 90.77.

For SC candidates, the cut- off this year was 60.09, a big jump from 51.97 in 2023.

The Other Backward Classes ( non- creamy layer) cut off has also increased to 79.67 this time from 73.61 in 2023.