JEE topper from state tops again

NT Correspondent

 Bengaluru

Results of the second session of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) – Main were declared on Monday. Boya Haren Sathvik  emerged as the only candidate from Karnataka to have scored 100 percentile in the test.

Pavitra Gupta, with 99.94 percentile, was the state’s topper among girls. Sathvik, who is a native of Hindupur in Andhra Pradesh, aspires to take up Computer Science Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay. He had also topped in the first session of JEE (Main) this year.

A total of 24 candidates scored 100 percentile in the second session of JEE (Main). Joint Entrance Examination (Main) was conducted in 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu).

 “Over 10.26 lakh candidates had registered for the two sessions of the exam while 9.05 lakh candidates had appeared. Over 4.04 lakh candidates had appeared for both the sessions,” a senior NTA official said. The second session of JEE-Main was held between July 21 and 30. The final ranks will be released after considering the best score from among the two sessions.