JEE Main results declared, 24 candidates score perfect 100

Twenty-four candidates scored a perfect 100 in the engineering entrance JEE (Main), the results of which were announced by the National Testing Agency on Saturday. Rajasthan had the highest number of candidates with a perfect score.Two female candidates featured among the top scorers: Devdutta Majhi from West Bengal and Sai Manogna Guthikonda from Andhra Pradesh. The results of 110 candidates found using unfair means, including forged documents, were withheld. The exam was conducted in two sessions — January and April — witnessing a massive turnout. A total of 15,39,848 unique candidates registered across both sessions, of which 14,75,103 appeared. In the January session alone, 13,11,544 students registered and 12,58,136 appeared, while the April session saw 10,61,840 registrations and 9,92,350 actual participants.
The NTA also released the category-wise cut-off percentiles for eligibility to appear in JEE Advanced 2025. The cut-off for the unreserved (UR) category was 93.10 percentile. For the Economically Weaker Section (EWS), it was 80.38; for OBC-NCL, 79.43; for Scheduled Castes (SC), 61.15; and for Scheduled Tribes (ST), 47.90. For Persons with Benchmark Disability (PwBD) in the UR category, the cut-off stood at 0.0079 percentile.

Now that the JEE Main results are out, eligible candidates will move forward to the JEE Advanced — the gateway to securing admission in the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).