New Delhi, June 14 -- Maharshtra's Kartikey Gupta has topped the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2019, by securing 346 out of 372 marks, according to the results declared on Friday by IIT-Kharagpur.

At number 10, Ahmedabad's Shabnam Sahay secured the top rank among the female candidates. She has obtained 308 marks of the total, the results showed.

Archit Bubna from New Delhi secured the third rank in the examination.

A total of 1,61,319 candidates appeared for the exam, of which 38,705 candidates cleared it. Among the candidates who passed the exam, 5,356 were female and 33,349 male.

The total number of General Category students who qualified for the exam were 15,566. Apart from these, 7,651 candidates were successful from the...