New Delhi, June 3 -- A total of 54,378 candidates have qualified in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced-2025, the results of which were announced on Monday, marking a 12.7% jump from last year, when 48,248 aspirants cleared the qualifying examination for entry into the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). According to the results declared by IIT Kanpur, which was the conducting institute this year for JEE-Advanced, of the 54,378 qualified candidates, 44,974 are male and 9,404 are female. The number of male and women candidates clearing the IIT entrance exam also saw an increase of 11.6% (from 40,284 in 2024) and 18% (from 7,964 in 2024), respectively. While Delhi zone's Rajit Gupta bagged the overall top rank in JEE advanced scoring 332 out of a maximum of 360, Devdutta Majhi of IIT Kharagpur zone topped among female candidates scoring 312 . "We successfully ensured that the results were released ahead of schedule at 6am on Monday before the listed time of 10 am. A key challenge was managing the large data securely," Prof Manindra Agrawal, director of IIT Kanpur, told HT. P8...