MUMBAI: 99.96, 99.97 and finally 99.99. This sums up the year for Ghatkopar teenager Harsh Vora who took the JEE (Main) test thrice this year, each time to surpass his previous score, and emerge as the Maharashtra topper in the session 3 results announced on Friday night.
“I took each attempt as practice to get better. Each test had its ups and downs, but the hardest was the February attempt. Actually, I just made some silly mistakes. In this attempt too, I made one silly error,” Vora told TOI.
Vora was the 2019 ICSE third ranker and since then has harbored the desire to sign up at IIT-B’s computer science department and later join Google. And he came closer to his dreams with every JEE attempt. IIT aspirants like Harsh will go on to take the JEE Advanced.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the results of the JEE (Main) session 3 at 10pm on Friday. Among the all-India rankers, 17 candidates scored a 100 percentile—four each from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, two each from Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, and one each from Bihar, Rajasthan and Karnataka. Pal Aggrawal from Uttar Pradesh was the sole girl topper among the 100 percentilers.
After all the four sessions of JEE (Main)-2021 exams, candidates’ ranks will be released taking into consideration the best of the four NTA scores.
The JEE (Main)–2021 Session-3 for Paper 1 (BE/BTech) was conducted on July 20, 22, 25, and 27. Nearly 7.1 lakh candidates registered for the exam that was conducted at 915 centres in 334 cities, including 12 cities outside India.
The examination of 1,899 candidates in the flood-affected districts of Kolhapur, Palghar, Ratnagiri, Raigadh, Sangli and Satara in Maharashtra, who could not appear on July 25, was conducted on August 3 and 4.
