JEE Main 2020 results: Cutoff, trends, stats and all you need to know

The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday released this year’s Joint Entrance Examination(JEE) Main results on its official website. Earlier a press release was circulated in media which disclosed the list of toppers which got its validity from a tweet posted by the union education minister.

A total of 24 candidates have scored 100 Percentile in JEE main 2020. The examination was conducted from September 1 to 6 for which 8.58 lakhs candidates had registered. As there was so much uncertainty and chaos around the exam being conducted amidst pandemic, only 6.35 lakhs candidates appeared for September edition of JEE Main. The list of Toppers got its majority from Telangana with as many as eight candidates from the state securing 100 percentile.

The JEE (Main) Examination, 2020 for B.E./B.Tech has been conducted two times in CBT mode, in this year. The first Examination was conducted between 7th and 9th January, 2020 in 6 shifts, and the second JEE (Main) Examination was conducted from 2nd to 6th September, 2020 in 10 shifts. Including both the phases a total of 11.74 Lakh unique candidates registered for the exam out of which a total of 10.23 Lakh unique candidates appeared for the exam. 5.88 lakhs common candidates registered for both January and September phases of the examinations, out of which a total of 4.81 lakhs appeared. The examination body also presented gender and category wise data of appeared students. Only 3.08 lakhs female candidates appeared in the exam in comparison to a whooping 7.15 Lakh male candidates. Five transgender candidates also appeared in this premier engineering entrance test.

Based on the scores obtained by the candidates, the National Testing Agency has also released cutoff percentile for JEE Advanced. For those candidates who appeared in both examinations, their better of the two scores have been accounted for. For candidates of General category, the cutoff percentile to appear in JEE Advanced is 90.37 and that for Economically Weaker Section(EWS) is 70.24. For OBC, SC and ST categories, the cutoff percentile is 72.88, 50.17 and 39.06, respectively. The Cut off for physically challenged candidates remained the lowest with just 0.06 percentile.

The supreme examination body also released the state wise toppers list and female category toppers list. List of state wise toppers and female category toppers are attached below.