JEE-Mains 2023: 20 score perfect 100 in Session 1, NTA scores of 50 candidates withheld

The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results of JEE Main exam session 1 Paper 1 (B.E/B.Tech.) which was held in January-February and twenty candidates scored a perfect 100 according to official sources. All the candidates who got a perfect 100 were men.

Those who scored 100 are Abhineet Majety, Amogh Jalan, Apurva Samota, Ashik Stenny, Bikkina Abhinav Chowdary, Deshank Pratap Singh, Dhruv Sanjay Jain, Dnyanesh Hemendra Shinde, Duggineni Venkata Yugesh, Gulshan Kumar, Guthikonda Abhiram, Kaushal Vijayvergiya, Krish Gupta, Mayank Son, N K Vishwaajith, Nipun Goel, Rishi Kalra, Soham Das, Suthar Harshul Sanjaybhai and Vavilala Chidvilas Reddy.

"The NTA scores of 50 candidates have been withheld as they are under scrutiny The cases of these candidates are being placed before a committee separately. Their NTA scores will be declared once the committee finalises its report," a senior NTA official said.


NTA score is not the same as percentage of marks obtained but normalised scores.

"NTA scores are normalised scores across multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The marks obtained are converted into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees," the official added.

As per the NTA, of the 8.6 lakh applicants for Paper 1, a total of 8.22 lakh candidates appeared for the exam which is 95.79 percent attendance. The NTA states that this is the highest attendance for JEE Main Paper 1 ever since the NTA began conducting the exams.

The exam was held in 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu).

It was also conducted in the 17 foreign cities of Manama, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, Kuwait City, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos and Abuja, Colombo, Jakarta, Moscow, Port Louis, Bangkok, Washington D.C.

The second edition of the crucial exam will be held from 6-12 April, 2023. The registration for Session 2 of the JEE Main exam has already started.

(with inputs from PTI)