The results of the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate courses were announced on Thursday, with the National Testing Agency saying 11.25 lakh out of 20 lakh candidates have qualified. The testing agency announced Aryan Gupta from Punjab and Panchul Bansal from Haryana as the joint toppers in the exam.
Both Gupta and Bansal scored 715 out of 720 marks in the exam.
However, 58 percent of those eligible were women. The qualification rate was 56.8 percent for women and 55.1 percent for men.
19 candidates scored above 700 in the exam. 138 candidates scored above 690, with 93 per cent appearing for the first time in the exam, and 99 per cent of them aged between 17 and 19 years. 1,492 candidates scored 650 and above.
Unlike last year’s press releases on NEET-UG results, this time NTA did not provide the exact number of candidates who appeared in the exam and their gender distribution. It also does not have the usual top list containing the names of the top 20 students and the highest social group. “Separate top lists are provided for each category in the accompanying top caps document,” the NTA said in its press release, which did not have a top list. A spokesman for the union Ministry of Education said the list would be released “soon.”
List of top ten scorers
- Aryan Gupta – 99.9999 percent
- Panchul Bansal – 99.9999 Celsius
- Oblakshya Goyal – 99.99985 percent
- Ayush Bhalotia – 99.99965 percent
- Kodali Shravani Krishna – 99.99965 Celsius
- Rhea Ranjan – 99.99965 Celsius
- Aryan Dube – 99.99965 Celsius
- Gitansh Sareen – 99.99915 Celsius
- Gaurav Singh – 99.99915 percent
- Mohanesh Maruti Bhosale – 99.99915 Celsius
According to the NTA press release, the eligible candidates came from across the 36 states and union territories, ranging from over 1.7 lakh in Uttar Pradesh to 43 in Lakshadweep.
State leaders include Jigmat Yangshan Lamu (Ladakh, 530 marks), Dhruv Tripathi (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 606 marks) and Fahmida Anis (Lakshadweep, 573 marks), each state covering the north-east of the country. The top 17 contestants, who scored more than 705 marks, span eight states: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
About 2.91 lakh candidates qualified in General category, 5.12 lakh in OBC-NCL category, 1.59 lakh in SC category, 63,716 lakh in ST category, 95,026 in Gen-EWS, 3,666 in PwBD and 303 in PWD.
