After taking the JEE Main exam this year for paper 1 and 2 in April, the impending main rank list was declared on Thursday on its official website, josaa.nic.in and jeemain.nic.in. Over 11 lakh aspirants took the exam this time, with Delhi's Deepanshu Jindal grabbing the first spot, as reported in Hindustan Times.
Boys dominated the list of toppers, of the top 1,000 positions, 853 have been secured by boys and 147 by girls. Ryali Gayathri from Telangana has emerged on the top among girls, securing the 11th rank, according to The Financial Express.
JEE is a common entrance examination for admission to different engineering courses. Admissions to BE and B Tech courses in engineering institutions like NITs, IIITs are made on the basis of these rankings. As for admission to the IITs - for which scores in IIT (Advanced) exam is the basis, the first list of allocation of seats for IITs will be released on July 1.
The All India Rankings are based on the candidate's JEE Main score (60% weightage) and Class 12 scores (40% weightage).
The top three rankers for 2016 are Deepanshu Jindal, Pratyush Maini, Rajesh Bansal.