new delhi as many as 20 candidates scored 100 percentile in the jee main 2023 january session for admissions to engineering courses results of which were announced by the national testing agency nta on monday night in a record five days the 20 toppers include 14 from the general category four from obc and one each from genews and sc category there are no women candidates in the top 20 from session 1 the woman topper is meesala pranathi sreeja with 9999 nta score in jee mains 2022 there were 24 candidates including two women who scored 100 percentile in the first session last year there were 14 toppers with 100 percentile of which one was a female candidatewhile md sahil akhtar is the pwd topper with 9998 nta score sc topper is deshank pratap singh with 100 nta score and st topper is dheeravath thanuj with a score 9999 in the january session this year which concluded on february 1 the next session of jee main 2023 will be conducted in aprilamong the toppers this time there are four candidates each from telangana abhineet majety bikkina abhinav chowdary guthikonda abhiram and vavilala chidvilas reddy and rajasthan apurva samota dnyanesh hemendra shinde krish gupta and mayank soni followed by three from up deshank pratap singh nipun goel and rishi kalra two from gujarat kaushal vijayvergiya and suthar harshul sanjaybhai and one each from andhra pradesh duggineni venkata yugesh chhattisgarh dhruv sanjay jain delhi amogh jalan kerala ashik stenny bihar gulshan kumar tamil nadu nk vishwaajith and west bengal soham dasalso check jee main session 1 toppers 2023an education ministry official said postpandemic in order to bring back the academic calendar to its schedule the ministry had announced the undergraduate entrance calendar for 2023 well in advance in december 2022 and towards the same effort the results are also being announced in a record five daysnta score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained the percentile or nta scores are normalised across multisession papers and based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session the final ranks of the candidates are released taking into consideration the best of the two nta scoresthe examination was conducted in 13 languages assamese bengali english gujarati hindi kannada malayalam marathi odia punjabi tamil telugu and urdu across 574 centres in 287 cities including 17 cities outside indiafour candidates took the test in indian languages and scored over 99 nta score with the topper in this category being pansuriya kashyap ashokbhai gujarati who scored 9996 percentilenta has withheld scores of 50 candidates which are under scrutiny the cases of these candidates are being placed before a committee separately their nta scores will be declared once the committee finalises its reportas first reported by toi the attendance was 958 for paper 1 be btech the highest recorded for the exam and for the first time registration of women surpassed the 30 mark paper 1