Bhogi Suraj Krishna from Vijayawada secured All India Rank one in the JEE Main 2018. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared result of Paper 1 on official websites jeemain.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in on Monday evening. Both the first and the second topper in the JEE Main 2018 examination are from Andhra Pradesh. As many as 2,31,024 students have qualified for JEE Advanced 2018, which is gateway for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).
The sixth edition of JEE Main 2018 offline exam was held on April 8, 2018. As many as 10,43,739 lakh candidates -— 6,46,814 boys and 2,66,745 girls — had registered for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in NITs, IIITs and other centrally funded technical institutions.
Krishna, who topped JEE Mains 2018, is a General Category student. The second rank was secured by KVR Hemant Kumar Chodipilli from Andhra Pradesh while the third rank was bagged by Parth lathuria. Pranav Goyal from Haryana was AIR 4, Gattu Mytraya from Telangana AIR 5, Pawan Goyal from Rajasthan AIR 6, Bhaskar Arun Gupta from Rajasthan AIR 7, Bakarapu Bharath from Andhra Pradesh AIR 8, Simranpreet Singh Saluja from Delhi AIR 9, Gosula Vinayaka Srivardhan from Telangana AIR 10.
"The JEE question papers are prepared in original by over 100 item writers. These item writers are subject experts. They prepare over 1,500 items over a period of two months. All these questions are handwritten. After that, 90 questions are drawn randomly and 8-9 sets are created. Anyone set is randomly picked for use in JEE," said a CBSE release.