The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the results of the examinations conducted in February 2021 late on Monday night.
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Six candidates scored a perfect 100 percentile in the Joint Entrance Examinations - Mains (JEE-Mains) held in February 2021. The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results of JEE- Mains late on Monday night.Pravar Kataria and Ranjim Prabal Das from Delhi, Guramrit Singh from Chandigarh, Saket Jha from Rajasthan, Sidhanth Mukherjee from Maharashtra and Ananth Krishna Kidambi from Gujarat were the students who have scored perfect 100 in the exams. According to officials, 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. NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained," a senior official said. The National Testing Agency (NTA) had conducted the February session examination from February 23 to 26, 2021. The exam was conducted at over 800 centres in 331 cities, including nine centres abroad -- Colombo, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Kuwait. This year, a total of 6.52 lakh candidates had registered for the entrance examination, 95 percent of whom had appeared in the BE/BTech papers and 81.2 percent appeared in BArch/BPlanning paper. This was the first time that the exam was conducted in 13 languages -- Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English and Gujarati. Starting this year, the exam will be conducted four times a year to offer flexibility to students and a chance to improve their scores. The next phases will be held in March, April and May. "Due to the lockdown in Bahrain, the exam could not be conducted. NTA is in constant communication with Indian Embassy, Bahrain, and will work out a plan in the interest of candidates for the conduct of Paper 2A (BArch.) and 2B (BPlanning). For Paper 1 (BE./BTech), those candidates who have opted for March Session will appear in March along with other candidates. "After February, March, April, and May Sessions of JEE (Main)-2021 Exam, the ranks of the candidates will be released taking into consideration the best of the four NTA scores in accordance with the policy. The candidates have the choice to appear in one, two, three, four examinations for admission," the official said.
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