By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Bengaluru’s R K Shishir of the IIT Bombay zone has topped JEE-Advanced 2022, whose results were announced on Sunday. He secured 314 out of 360 marks.
Seventeen-year-old Shishir of Narayana Techno School in Bengaluru had earlier topped the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) in the pharmacy stream and stood fourth in the engineering category.
The second and third rank holders are Polu Lakshmi Sai Lohith Reddy and Thomas Biju Cheeramvelil. Tanishka Kabra from the Delhi zone is the topper among female candidates with 277 marks. Her all-India rank is 16.
Out of the top 500 candidates who have qualified in JEE Advanced, 133 are from the IIT Delhi zone, followed by the IIT Madras zone (132) and IIT Bombay zone (126).
Also, five out of the top 10 rank holders are from the IIT Madras zone. These include Polu Lakshmi Sai Lohith Reddy (Common Rank List (CRL) 2), Thomas Biju Cheeramvelil (CRL 3), Vangapalli Sai Siddhartha (CRL 4), Polisetty Karthikeya (CRL 6) and Dheeraj Kurukunda (CRL 8).
JEE-Main, the admission test for engineering colleges across the country, conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), is the qualifying exam for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Advanced. Over 1.5 lakh candidates appeared for the exam this year, and 40,712 have qualified. Of the total qualified candidates, 6,516 are females.
Candidates can check their scorecards at the official JEE Advanced website -jeeadv.ac.in.
Now, candidates must appear for the Joint Seat Allocation (JoSAA 2022) to get admission to these premier IITs. The JoSAA counselling is set to commence on September 12.
According to officials, over 16,000 seats are up for grabs in all the 23 elite IITs, a marginal increase in the total number of seats from 16,232 last year to 16,598 this year.
These seats include 1,567 supernumerary seats, which are over and above the sanctioned intake approved by the authority for women candidates – an initiative to encourage gender diversity in these prestigious technological institutes.
Along with the result, the final answer key has also been published.
The aggregate marks are calculated as the sum of the marks obtained in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Candidates have to satisfy the subject-wise as well as the aggregate qualifying marks to be included in a rank list, officials said.
NEW DELHI: Bengaluru’s R K Shishir of the IIT Bombay zone has topped JEE-Advanced 2022, whose results were announced on Sunday. He secured 314 out of 360 marks.
Seventeen-year-old Shishir of Narayana Techno School in Bengaluru had earlier topped the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) in the pharmacy stream and stood fourth in the engineering category.
The second and third rank holders are Polu Lakshmi Sai Lohith Reddy and Thomas Biju Cheeramvelil. Tanishka Kabra from the Delhi zone is the topper among female candidates with 277 marks. Her all-India rank is 16.
Out of the top 500 candidates who have qualified in JEE Advanced, 133 are from the IIT Delhi zone, followed by the IIT Madras zone (132) and IIT Bombay zone (126).
Also, five out of the top 10 rank holders are from the IIT Madras zone. These include Polu Lakshmi Sai Lohith Reddy (Common Rank List (CRL) 2), Thomas Biju Cheeramvelil (CRL 3), Vangapalli Sai Siddhartha (CRL 4), Polisetty Karthikeya (CRL 6) and Dheeraj Kurukunda (CRL 8).
JEE-Main, the admission test for engineering colleges across the country, conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), is the qualifying exam for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Advanced. Over 1.5 lakh candidates appeared for the exam this year, and 40,712 have qualified. Of the total qualified candidates, 6,516 are females.
Candidates can check their scorecards at the official JEE Advanced website -jeeadv.ac.in.
Now, candidates must appear for the Joint Seat Allocation (JoSAA 2022) to get admission to these premier IITs. The JoSAA counselling is set to commence on September 12.
According to officials, over 16,000 seats are up for grabs in all the 23 elite IITs, a marginal increase in the total number of seats from 16,232 last year to 16,598 this year.
These seats include 1,567 supernumerary seats, which are over and above the sanctioned intake approved by the authority for women candidates – an initiative to encourage gender diversity in these prestigious technological institutes.
Along with the result, the final answer key has also been published.
The aggregate marks are calculated as the sum of the marks obtained in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Candidates have to satisfy the subject-wise as well as the aggregate qualifying marks to be included in a rank list, officials said.
