Mumbai: Rajit Gupta of Kota emerged at the top of the JEE Advanced 2025 rank list, securing 332 out of 360 marks. Gupta, whose father, placed himself in 48th position in the former engineering test of Rajasthan, will join the computer science department of IIT Bombay.In Gupta’s heels, Saxham Jindal from Hisar in Haryana, the son of the doctor, matched their score, but the tie on the tie -bracing matrix based on high positive points was reduced. Gupta got 335 and Jindal got 333. Majid Hussain finished third with 330. This year more relations were seen in this list – both rank 6 and 7 scored 321 runs, and 8 and 9 shared a score of 319 – made the race not only close, but also highly competitive.Kota’s coaching hub, often in the news for negative reasons, was the reason to celebrate Monday as an unprecedented 42 from the city ranked in the top 100 – its best performance was adopted in 2013.Out of 54,378, who approved JE-ADV, 9,404 are women Devdutt sought from West Bengal, who left his violin during his JEE advanced preparation, emerged as a top-ranking female candidate in the country. With the all-India rank of 16 and a score of 312, its preparation was largely self-de-degenerate, with some fake testing and doubt-composition sessions. He also turned to his mother to clean the doubt to his mother. In August, she will join the Indian Institute of Science. Of the 1.8 lakh candidates, who were sitting through both papers on May 18, only 54,378 made it behind the finish line. Among them, 9,404 are women. It was not only recipients who attracted attention – this year, the cutoff also decreased. The minimum qualification marks for general category reached 109 to 74 in the previous year. The requirement of only 7 points towards the subject-physicality, chemistry and mathematics-topic-top-wise cutoff also decreased, which was less than 10 a year ago.Beyond social categories, the dip was the same. Candidates of OBC and economically weaker sections required 66 marks (18.5%), while SC/ST candidates qualified at 37 points-10.28%-with a subject-minimum 3.While IIT Bombay Zone students dominated the upper areas of the merit list, it was IIT Hyderabad Zone – incorporating the southern states – which sent the largest cohort in the qualifying line. 13,000 candidates from the region cut. It had a close IIT Delhi zone on its heels, with 11,370 qualifiers, followed by IIT Bombay Zone, contributed to 11,226 candidates in the pool of eligible people for counseling.The analysis showed that the top 10 rank closed at 317 this year, below 329 in 2024. Sreedhar Babu, the mentor of mathematics and alumni from IIT Bombay said, “The paper was long. Some students who followed the linear order – chemistry, then physics, then mathematics – math – steam midway.” He pointed to a broad answer boundaries in numerical questions, which was more projections than rigidity. “The irony is that people who guess well, while people who raise slogans through every digit did not benefit proportional to the people.,
