Top ranks in the reservation category were bagged by students from Andhra Pradesh in the JEE Advanced results, which were released on Wednesday.
Majji Sandeep Kumar from Vizianagaram bagged the first rank in the OBC category but his all-India rank was 10. Turaka Bhavan from Tenali secured the first rank among the Scheduled Castes category while his all India rank was 39. In the Scheduled Tribes category Harsh Meena from Vishakapatnam took the top spot while his all-India rank was 633.
Satvat Jagwani of Satna in Madhya Pradesh bagged the all-India first rank in the open category in the JEE Advanced results which were released on Wednesday while the topper among girls was Krati Tiwari from Indore. The second and third ranks were also bagged by students from Indore — Janak Agarwal and Mukesh Pareekh — respectively.
The IIT Bombay zone secured the maximum qualifications with 6,838 students getting eligibility. In the top 100, 34 candidates figured from this region. IIT Madras zone was in the second place with 4,928 candidates clearing the exam but only 28 from the region figured in the top 100. IIT Delhi region secured 4,511 qualifications followed by IIT Kharagpur (3115), IIT Kanpur (3085), IIT Roorkee (2534) and IIT Guwahati (1445). Five students from the IIT Madras region were in the top 10 rankers. Among the 1,17,238 candidates who took the exam 26,548 were declared qualified.
In the general category 15,683 students qualified, while 6,455 from the OBC category, 2,571 from SCs, 1,747 from STs and 319 physically challenged students from all categories cleared the exam.
