Prabanjan J from Tamil Nadu and Bora Varun Chakravarthi from Andhra Pradesh have emerged as the top scorers in this year’s NEET-UG, attaining a remarkable 99.99 percentile, as announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday. Out of the total 20.38 lakh candidates, 11.45 lakh have successfully qualified for the exam.
Uttar Pradesh claims the highest number of qualifying candidates with 1.39 lakh, followed by Maharashtra with 1.31 lakh and Rajasthan with over 1 lakh qualifiers. The NTA conducted the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (UG) across 4,097 centers in 499 cities nationwide, including 14 cities outside India, on May 7.
There are four candidates from Tamil Nadu in the top 10 and one each from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Odisha and Rajasthan.