Twenty-six candidates out of the total 2.34 million aspirants were placed in the 100th percentile, securing a perfect score in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2026, according to the results the National Testing Agency (NTA) released on Monday.
The number of students securing the perfect score has increased from last year’s 24. Among the 26 candidates with a perfect score, five each are from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, followed by four from Rajasthan, three each from Delhi (NCT) and Haryana, and two candidates are from Maharashtra.
“For those candidates who appeared in both the Sessions of the JEE (Main), their better score from the two sessions has been declared. There are 26 combined toppers from all the 19 shifts of Session 1 and Session 2 of JEE Main 2026,” a senior NTA official said.
The JEE Main results are based on percentile scores, calculated from raw scores after normalisation. Results of 57 candidates have not been declared after they were found indulging in unfair means or discrepancies during identity verification, the official said.
The JEE (Main) serves as a base eligibility bar for the JEE (Advanced), the qualifying examination for entry into the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). JEE (Main) scores also form the basis for admissions to various engineering colleges such as the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs).
