Bhubaneswar: Om Prakash Behera from Odisha secured a perfect 100 percentile score in JEE Mains 2025 Session 2 exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Altogether 24 students have secured the perfect 100.
A resident of Bhubaneswar, Behera secured the perfect score in the second session of JEE Mains held in April. He took his coaching for the exam in Rajasthan’s Kota.
He secured 23rd position in the list of 24 All India Toppers with 100 percentile score.
This year’s JEE Main was conducted in two sessions — January and April — with a massive turnout.
A total of 15,39,848 unique candidates registered across both sessions, while 14,75,103 appeared. In the January session alone, 13,11,544 students registered and 12,58,136 appeared. For the April session, 10,61,840 registered and 9,92,350 took the exam, sources said.
The JEE Main 2025 scorecard includes a detailed breakdown of each candidate’s performance, featuring raw marks, subject-wise percentiles, the overall NTA score, All India Rank (AIR), and JEE Advanced eligibility status.
The NTA also announced the category-wise percentile cut-offs for eligibility to appear in JEE Advanced 2025.
While least 93.10 percentile has been fixed for the candidates belonging to general category, the EWS cut off was 80.38 percentile, OBC-NCL was 79.43 percentile, Scheduled Castes (SC) 61.15 percentile and Scheduled Tribes (ST) 47.90 percentile.
These cut-offs will help students evaluate their chances of progressing to the next phase or securing seats through the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) counselling process, expected to commence in June 2025.
JEE Main serves as a gateway to top engineering institutions, including NITs, IIITs, and other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs). It is also the qualifying exam for the prestigious JEE Advanced, which paves the way to admission into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). This announcement marks a crucial academic milestone for lakhs of aspirants across the country.
