The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) on Monday declared the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2020 result on its official website.
Pune’s Chirag Falor is the all India topper with 352 marks out of 396. Kanishka Mittal is the top ranked female. She obtained 315 marks out of 396. This year, a total number of 1,50,838 candidates appeared in both papers 1 and 2 in JEE (Advanced), of which 43,204 candidates have qualified the examination.
A total of 1.6 lakh candidates had registered for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Advanced after qualifying the JEE-Main exams, of which 96% candidates appeared in the exam. This year, the JEE Advanced 2020 examination was conducted on September 27, 2020, at various centres spread across the country.
Previously on January 24, Chirag Falor received the prestigious Bal Puraskar award from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 24 took to Twitter and congratulated Chirag Falor when he received the Bal Puraskar award. He said, “Meet my friend Chirag Falor, a Bal Puraskar awardee. Winner of national and international math and science competitions, he represented India in the International Olympiad Award on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Chirag has a bright future ahead and I wish him success.”