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NEET 2023: Two students from Andhra, Tamil Nadu share top rank
June 13, 2023

Tamil Nadu's Prabanjan J and Andhra Pradesh's Bora Varun Chakravarthi have topped the medical entrance exam NEET-UG this year with 99.99 percentile scores, the National Testing Agency announced on Tuesday. 

A total of 11.45 lakh candidates out of 20.38 lakh have qualified the exam. 

Among the states, Uttar Pradesh has highest number of qualifying candidates (1.39 lakh) followed by Maharashtra (1.31 lakh) and Rajasthan (over 1 lakh). 

Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra are the two most populous states in the country while Rajasthan also figures in the top ten in terms of population. 

The NTA conducted the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-UG at 4,097 centres located in 499 cities throughout the country including 14 cities outside India on May 7. 

"Seven candidates were identified using unfair practices in the examination and have been dealt with as per the norms," a senior NTA official said. 

The examination was conducted in 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu). -- PTI
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