India, June 17 -- Twenty two students from the state have scored a perfect 100 percentile in the Maharashtra Technical Common Entrance Test (MHT-CET) for engineering and agriculture undergraduate courses, whose results were declared on Monday. However, the number has dropped compared to last year, when 37 students achieved the top percentile.

Of the 22 students who topped the exam, 14 are already on track to secure admission into various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Four of the top scorers are from outside Maharashtra, while another four plan to use their CET scores to gain admission to engineering colleges within the state.

The MHT-CET exam for the Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics (PCM) group was conducted across 28 sessi...