95% candidates appeared for JEE Mains 2021 first phase, informs Ramesh Pokhriyal

The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains February session successfully concluded on Friday for admission to engineering colleges in the country. Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ''Nishank'' informed that the JEE Main 2021 first phase saw a 95 percent attendance.

'Happy to note that the attendance in JEE first phase exam was 95%. I hope NTA will conduct the exam successfully in the future also,' he said in a tweet.'

This year, the National Testing Agency (NTA) commenced the JEE Main 2021 from February 23. The exam was conducted in 13 languages



-- Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English and Gujarati.
Amid the ongoing pandemic, all candidates had to follow social distancing norms and maintain at least 6 feet distance from each other at all the time.

'The exam was conducted at 828 centres in 311 cities, including 10 centres abroad -- Bahrain, Colombo, Doha, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, and Kuwait. All Covid-19 related protocols were followed,'' a senior official of the National Testing Agency (NTA) said, as reported by PTI.