The final merit list will be released after the second JEE Main exam, which is scheduled from July 21-30. Meanwhile, the NTA reopened the registration window for the July exam till 11.30 pm on Tuesday.
Telangana’s top scorers are Justi Yashwant VVS, Rupesh Biyani, Aniket Chattopadhyay and Dheeraj Kurukunda. Andhra Pradesh’s Koyana Suhas, Penikalapathi Ravi Kishore and Poliseti Karthikeya are the top scorers.
Other candidates who secured 100 percentile are Sarthak Maheshwari (Haryana), Kushagra Srivastava (Jharkhand), Mrinal Garg (Punjab), Navya (Rajasthan), Boya Harsen Satwik (Karnataka) and Soumitra Garg (Uttar Pradesh).
NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained. According to an NTA official, “NTA scores are normalized scores in multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the exam in a single session. The scores obtained for each session of the examinees are converted to a scale of 0 to 100.
After both the sessions of JEE Main 2022, the ranks of the candidates will be released taking into account the best of the two NTA scores.
Out of a total of 8.7 lakh registered candidates, 7.69 lakh appeared for the computer-based entrance test for admission to engineering courses and JEE Advanced for admission to IITs. The exam was conducted at 588 exam centers in 407 cities outside India including 17 cities – Manama, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, Kuwait City, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, Colombo, Jakarta, Vienna, Moscow . Port Louis and Bangkok.
More than 550 Supervisors, 424 City Coordinators, 18 Regional Coordinators, 369 Deputy and Independent Supervisors and two National Coordinators were deployed at the examination centers to oversee the smooth and fair conduct of the examination.
The exam was conducted in 13 languages - Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
“A control room was opened in the NTA campus where virtual observers were deployed for live CCTV coverage of all examination centers in India. An NTA official said that live CCTV surveillance was done to prevent malpractices in the examinations.
“NTA had also made arrangements for live viewing at remote locations and recording of CCTV systems of all examination centers in the control room located at NTA. About 35,000 cameras were installed per shift.