JEE- Mains is one of the important exams for engineering candidates. The result for JEE-Mains was declared on Friday and with that 24 students scored 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam which got postponed twice in view of the COVID-19 situations. While Telangana has maximum 100 percentile scorers at 8, Delhi is at the second spot with 5 hundred percentile scorers followed by Rajasthan (4), Andhra Pradesh (3), Haryana (2 ) and one candidate each from Gujarat and Maharashtra.

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The Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Mains for entrance to engineering colleges was administered from September 1 to 6, amid severe precautions and social distancing standards in view of COVID-19 pandemic. Rules like staggered entry and exit for candidates, sanitisers at the gate, distribution of masks and maintaining distance as candidates queued up, were among the scenes observed at the exam centres across the country. A total of 8.58 lakh applicants had enrolled for the JEE-Mains exam for admission to engineering courses in IITs, NITs and Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) while only 74 per cent of them had appeared for the exam.

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Expanding the number of examination centres, alternate seating plans, fewer applicants per room and staggered entry and exit were among the steps taken by the National Testing Agency for safely conducting the crucial exam. While the governments of Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh had assured students that they would provide transportation to candidates, a group of IIT alumni and students also launched a portal to provide transport facilities to exam centres for the candidates in need.

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