JEE Main 2024 Results Declared: Students Allege a Percentile Calculation Error

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The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the scorecard for the Joint Entrance Examination - Main 2024 (JEE Main 2024) at approximately 3 am today. Some students have raised issues in error in the result percentile. Read full details here!

JEE Main 2024 Results Declared: Students Allege a Percentile Calculation Error

New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the scorecard for the Joint Entrance Examination - Main 2024 (JEE Main 2024) at approximately 3 am today. Some students who has appeared the JEE Main session 1 exams 2024 have raised concerns about a significant variance between the predicted JEE Main marks and percentiles, referring to it as an "NTA blunder."

The scheduled announcement date for JEE Mains results 2024 was February 12, with the NTA issuing the final answer key in the afternoon, though the scorecards were not initially released.

The JEE Main session 1 scorecard for 2024 was made accessible on the official website, jeemain.ntaonline.in, around 3 am in the morning. Subsequently, students began sharing their JEE Main 2024 scores and percentiles on various social media platforms.

JEE Main 2024 Normalisation Method

The NTA has implemented a normalisation method to calculate the JEE Main 2024 score because the exam is conducted in multiple shifts and sessions. This method ensures that candidates are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged by variations in the difficulty levels across shifts. A total of 12,25,529 candidates participated in both JEE Mains paper 1 and 2, with 11,70,036 appearing for BE, BTech.

NTA said, “The percentile Score of all the lowest raw scores will depend on the total number of candidates who have taken the examination for their respective sessions.”

Error in JEE Main 2024 Percentile Calculation

A post by a student states, “Results show NTA has done blunder. My friend of 27 JAN shift 1 85%ile at 118 marks. Me got 92%ile at 144. I mean itna drastic change ek saal me impossible hai (It is impossible to have this drastic change in percentile).”

Some students quoted in their tweets that:

“JEE MAIN 2024 - All the "Marks to Percentile" predictions have considerably differences. Any error again in calculations #NTA?”

“What the hell is this percentile? For a difference of 3 marks there are 500 students in between. Looks like normalization has got a huge impact this time. Even 260 is not giving 99.9 . This was damn unexpected.”

“Two of my friends scored 140 marks. 27 shift 1 : 90%, 1 Feb shift 1 : 98%. Why so much difference?”

An aspirant responded on the NTA post on the display of the scorecard, “Recheck the percentile for jee mains 27t shift 1, shift 2 and 29th shift 1. This is unfair for the hardworking students who got above 200 still not getting 99%ile.”

Ques. How to calculate the JEE Main 2024 Percentile?

Ans. The percentile scores in NTA JEE Main are calculated by comparing the performance of all candidates. The obtained marks were transformed in a scale of 100 to 0 for each examination session. The formula used to compute the JEE Main 2024 percentile is as follows: (100 x the number of candidates in the session with a raw score equal to or less than the candidate) divided by the total number of candidates who participated in that specific session.

Ques. How to check the JEE Main 2024 Result?

Ans. Visit the official website for NTA JEE Main Result, jeemain.nta.nic.in. Click on the link for JEE Main 2024 Result. JEE Main login window will open. Enter the required credentials, your application number and DOB and the security pin displayed on the screen. Once you submit, your JEE Main Result will be displayed on the screen. This is the final NTA JEE Main Result. You can download and save your JEE scorecard for future use.

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