Vijaywada’s Bhogi Suraj Krishna topped the Joint Entrance Examination-Mains for admission to engineering colleges across the country and the qualifying test for JEE-Advanced, which is an entrance test for admission to IITs and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
Of the total 10.74 lakh candidates who appeared for the exam, 2.3 lakh qualified for JEE Advanced, said the Central Board of Secondary Education which conducted the exam. A total of 1,80, 331 boys and 50,693 girls qualified for the next stage. The results were announced on April 30.
The second rank was bagged by Hemant Kumar Chodipilli from Andhra Pradesh, while the third rank was secured by Rajasthan’s Parth Laturia.
The exam was conducted at 1,621 centres (1,613 in India and 8 abroad) across 112 cities (104 in India and 8 abroad).