PUNE: The National Testing Agency (NTA) declared the results of first Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main 2019 on Saturday. Fifteen students in the country have scored 100 NTA percentile in Paper-I (BE/BTech) held between January 8-12.
Around 9.29 lakh candidates had registered for Paper-I, of which 8.74 lakh appeared for the exam. A total of 45 students excelled in the exam, having topped in their respective states and Union Territories (more than one in some states having secured top position), including Bhutan, Nepal and other countries where Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) appeared. However, ranks of the candidates will be declared only after the second JEE Main in April.
Durgesh Mangeshkar, Founder of IITian’s Prashikshan Kendra, said that considering the slots, those in the range of 185-195 marks have corresponded to the 99th percentile score, which is higher than the past six years of offline JEE Mains papers. “Another point is that NTA has not declared category-wise percentiles as was expected. Instead, all students are treated in common list for now.
A score of above 97 per cent is sufficient to secure a place in National Institute of Technology (NIT). A score of 90 per cent is sufficient to secure admission in an A-grade Pune engineering colleges. It is estimated that a score of 84-85 percentile should be sufficient to qualify for JEE Advanced for open category student,” Mangeshkar said.
ONE PERCENTILE’S VALUE
“For now, JEE has only given percentile scores. The final JEE main rank shall only be allotted after the phase 2 of the JEE Main exam in April,” said Vaibhav Bakliwal, Founder of Bakliwal Tutorials (BT).
“Assuming almost the same set of students will write the phase 2 of JEE Main, 99 percentile shall roughly correspond to 9,500 rank in common merit list and for a further drop of the score by 1 percent the rank shall drop by 9,500, i.e. 98 percent shall correspond to 19,000 rank,” he said.
“The cut-off (minimum percentile needed for becoming eligible to write JEE Advanced) for general category shall be close to 86 percentile,” he said.
ONLINE EXAM BENEFICIAL
”The online mode of examination is much better than written examination, as we could go back to the given answers, review it and reinsert the correct one, which is not possible in written mode,” said Varun Pathak from Pune, who scored 99.6 percent. He is yet to decide between mechanical engineering and computer science.
Another candidate from Pune, Atharva Chandak, who scored 99.96 per cent overall and 100 per cent in physics said he wants to pursue Computer Science in Contempt Computing and Robotics.
WHAT IS NORMALISED SCORE BASED ON PERCENTILE SCORE?
NTA scores are normalised scores across multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The marks obtained are converted into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees.
RANKS TO BE DECLARED
- After the JEE Main April-2019 Exam, the ranks of the candidates will be released taking into consideration better of the two NTA scores of all candidates appeared in January 2019 and April 2019 examinations.
- NTA Score for Paper II (BArch and BPlanning) will be declared later, stated NTA.
