The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Main 2023 registered an all-time high attendance of 95.8 % in the January session, officials said on Thursday.
The January session of the test got over on Wednesday, and the next session would be conducted in April.
The crucial exam is being conducted at 574 centres across the country.
According to the National Testing Agency (NTA) officials, over 8.6 lakh candidates registered for Paper 1 (BE/BTech), while over 46,000 registered for Paper 2 (BArch).
The exam was conducted in 13 languages -- English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
JEE-Main is conducted for admission to undergraduate engineering programs at NITs, IIITs, other centrally funded technical institutions, and institutions or universities funded or recognized by participating state governments. It is also an eligibility test for JEE (Advanced), which is conducted for admission to IITs.
Of the total of 8,60,058 aspirants for Paper 1 (BE/BTech programs), 8,23,850 took the computer-based exam.
The test for BE and BTech programs was conducted over six days, starting from 24 January 2023.
Paper 2 was conducted on 28 January 2023 which registered 75.8% attendance.
Of the total registration of 9,06,523 candidates, women comprise 30.7%. Among the female candidates, 11.4 % are from the EWS category, 37 % from SC, 9.1% from ST and 3.4 % from the OBC categories.