In 2020, round 8.58 lakh candidates had utilized for JEE Essential April examination that was later postponed to September because of the pandemic out of which 6.35 lakh had appeared. In complete, 15 aspirants had scored 100 percentile in September 2020 cycle, whereas 9 toppers had scored 100 percentile in JEE Essential 2020 January cycle. The variety of 100 percentile scorers in JEE Essential April 2019 was 24 whereas in January, it was 15.
With lessons being held on-line owing to the pandemic, the variety of prime percentile scorers appears much less although registrations for JEE Essential 2021 February cycle was among the many highest. BS Murty, director, IIT Hyderabad, says, “The best scorer in every session of the examination secures 100 percentile, and at occasions there could possibly be multiple such scorer. For the reason that questions in every paper are completely different, percentile is the one means to convey parity and normalisation throughout the completely different periods.”
The highest 2.5 lakh candidates primarily based on their JEE Essential outcomes might be eligible to look for the JEE Superior for admission into the 23 Indian Institutes of Know-how (IITs) wherein round 10,000 earn seats primarily based on ranks.
“Problem stage will not be the rationale why there have been solely 6 prime scorers with 100 percentile in JEE Essential. The variety of college students securing 100 percentile might be all the time increased than or equal to the variety of periods in every cycle of JEE Essential. Within the February cycle with 6 periods, there was not less than one scholar who scored 100 percentile from every session,” says Brajesh Maheswari, director Allen Profession Institute, Kota, that has to its credit score, 4 college students — Siddhant Mukherjee from Maharashtra, Guramrit Singh from Chandigarh, Ananth Krishna Kidambi from Gujarat and Saket Jha from Rajasthan– among the many 100 percentile scorers.
“Ever because the lockdown in March 2020, college students on the Institute needed to attend on-line teaching lessons together with video counselling to clear their doubts. Bodily lessons have resumed solely from January 2021 and this can proceed until college students seem for JEE Superior in July 2021. Lockdown helped them to give attention to their research with none distractions and academics too have been all the time at hand to reply their queries on-line. A clean transition to the net teaching-learning course of was made to make sure there have been no studying gaps,” Maheshwari provides, dismissing the chance that the pandemic hindered aspirants’ tutorial progress.
Nevertheless, what was lacking was the aggressive spirit of offline lessons and the general atmosphere of bodily school rooms.
“It’s usually exhausting for too many college students to attain the very same marks on the prime of the spectrum. With only one topper from every session, this time spherical there have been solely 6 such 100 percentile scorers. JEE Essential will altogether have 24 periods over 4 cycles, so by definition, there might be not less than 24 such college students scoring 100 percentile with not less than one from every session,” explains Siddhant Mukherjee, one of many 100 percentile scorers in JEE Essential 2021 with an ideal 300/300 rating. The scorers will improve over the subsequent few months as competitors will get more durable and preparation higher with the upcoming JEE Superior.
