15 October,2021 11:59 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
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Mridul Agarwal from the Delhi zone has topped the IIT entrance exam, JEE-Advanced, the results of which were announced on Friday.
Agarwal scored 348 out of 360 marks in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Advanced.
A total of 41,862 candidates have qualified in JEE-Advanced this year, of whom 6,452 are female candidates, according to officials.
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Among the female candidates, Kavya Chopra from the Delhi zone is the topper with 286 marks out of 360.
This year, IIT-Kharagpur conducted the exam, which is the qualifying test for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
While the JEE-Mains is conducted for admission to engineering colleges across the country, it is considered as a qualifying test for JEE-Advanced.
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