NEW DELHI, APRIL 19: The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results for the JEE (Main) 2025 on Saturday, with 24 candidates achieving a perfect 100 NTA score in the highly competitive engineering entrance exam. Leading the chart, Rajasthan produced the highest number of toppers, while notably, one woman candidate also made it to this elite list of perfect scorers. This year, over 9.92 lakh students appeared for the second edition of the exam, which serves as the first gateway for engineering aspirants eyeing prestigious institutes like the IITs. However, the NTA also withheld the results of 110 candidates found involved in malpractice, including submitting forged documents.

How the NTA Score Works

Clarifying a common misconception, NTA officials emphasized that these scores are not raw percentages but normalised marks. Since the exam is conducted in multiple sessions, scores are adjusted based on the relative performance of students within each session. The resulting NTA score scales candidates' performance between 100 and 0, ensuring fairness across all shifts.

What’s Next?

With the results now declared, candidates qualifying in JEE (Main) Paper 1 and Paper 2 will move on to JEE (Advanced), the rigorous exam that decides admissions into India’s 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The competition is fierce, but for those who’ve cleared this round, the bigger battle lies ahead.