RK Shishir from Karnataka tops JEE Advanced 2022 exam

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, Sept 11, 2022: The results of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) entrance exam Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Advanced were announced on Sunday, September 11, and Bombay zone’s RK Shishir has bagged the top rank. According to IIT Bombay, which conducted the exam, Shishir secured 314 out of 360 marks. Tanishka Kabra from the Delhi zone is the topper among female candidates with 277 marks. Her all-India rank is 16. Over 1.5 lakh candidates had appeared for the exam and over 40,000 have qualified.

Seventeen-year-old RK Shishiri is a student of Narayana e-Techno School in Bengaluru, He recently topped the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) in the pharmacy stream, and bagged the fourth rank in the engineering category. He scored 314 marks out of 360 marks in JEE Advanced. He told Indian Express that he wants to study computer science at IIT Bombay.

The top ten candidates in the common rank list are RK Shishir, Polu Lakshmi Sai Lohith Reddy, Thomas Biju Cheeramvelil, Vangapalli Sai Siddhartha, Mayank Motwani, Polisetty Karthikeya, Pratik Sahoo, Dheeraj Kurukunda, Mahit Gadhiwala and Vetcha Gnana Mahesh. A total number of 1,55,538 candidates appeared in both papers 1 and 2 in JEE (Advanced) 2022, and a total of 40,712 candidates have qualified. Of the total qualified candidates, 6,516 are female candidates.

The zone-wise female toppers are Jaladhi Joshi under IIT Bombay, Tanishka Kabra under IIT Delhi, Sneha Pareek under IIT Guwahati, Pragati Agrawal under IIT Kanpur, Jahnvi Shaw under IIT Bhubaneswar, Palli Jalajakshi under IIT Madras and Vidushi under IIT Roorkee. In the IIT Madras zone, the tope five candidates are Polu Lakshmi Sai Lohith Reddy, Thomas Biju Cheeramvelil, Vangapalli Sai Siddhartha, Polisetty Karthikeya and Dheeraj Kurukunda.

"The aggregate marks are calculated as a sum of the marks obtained in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Candidates have to satisfy the subject-wise as well as aggregate qualifying marks to be included in the rank list," a senior IIT Bombay official said. JEE-Main, which is the admission test for engineering colleges across the country, is the qualifying exam for JEE-Advanced. Earlier on September 7, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the results of the medical entrance exam, National Eligibility and Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET-UG 2022. Out of the 17,64,571 candidates who appeared, 9,93,069 (56.3%) passed the exam.