The results of the highly anticipated IIT Advanced exam were announced on Sunday, opening doors for successful candidates to secure coveted spots in the 23 prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the country.
According to the results, the maximum number of candidates have qualified from the IIT Hyderabad zone, followed by the IIT Delhi zone and the IIT Bombay zone. Among the top 500 candidates, 174 belong to the IIT Hyderabad zone, while 120 and 103 candidates hail from the IIT Delhi zone and IIT Bombay zone, respectively.
Vavilala Chidvilas Reddy from the Hyderabad zone clinched the top rank in the JEE-Advanced, the entrance exam for IITs. IIT Guwahati, the conducting authority of this year’s JEE-Advanced, reported that Reddy secured an impressive score of 341 out of 360 marks. Nayakanti Naga Bhavya Sree, also from the IIT Hyderabad zone, emerged as the top female candidate with a score of 298 marks.
Remarkably, six out of the top 10 rank holders are from the IIT Hyderabad zone. The second rank was secured by Ramesh Surya Theja from the Hyderabad zone, followed by Rishi Kalra from the Roorkee zone. Raghav Goyal (Roorkee), Addagada Venkata Sivaram (Hyderabad), Prabhav Khandelwal (Delhi), Bikkina Abhinav Chowdhary (Hyderabad), Malay Kedia (Delhi), Nagireddy Balaaji Reddy (Hyderabad), and Yankanti Pani Venkata Maneedhar Reddy (Hyderabad) achieved subsequent ranks.
In addition to the Indian candidates, 13 foreign candidates and 155 Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) have also qualified the exam. The rank list criteria, as explained by a senior official from IIT Guwahati, takes into account the aggregate marks obtained in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry.
Candidates must meet both subject-wise and aggregate qualifying marks to be included in the rank list.
This year, the exam featured a lower percentage of negative marking, with more questions without penalties. These changes instilled confidence in the students, resulting in a higher cutoff, explained the official.
A total of 1,80,372 candidates appeared for both papers in the IIT-JEE Advanced, of which 43,773 candidates successfully qualified. Out of the qualifiers, 36,204 were male students, while 7,509 were female students.