New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- As many as 12 candidates out of 1.35 million aspirants secured a perfect 100 percentile in Paper 1 of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2026 Session 1, according to results announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday. Of the 12 toppers, three are from Rajasthan, two from Andhra Pradesh, and one each from Delhi, Bihar, Odisha, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana. Overall, 24 candidates scored 99.99 percentile. The JEE Main ranks are prepared on the basis of percentile scores, calculated from raw scores after normalisation. The NTA declares percentile scores up to seven decimal places. Last year, 14 candidates had secured 100 percentile in Session 1. The NTA conducted Paper 1 (BE/BTech) in computer-based mode from January 21 to 29 across 658 centres in 326 cities, including 15 abroad, in 13 languages. Results of 68 candidates have not been declared after they were found indulging in unfair means or discrepancies during identity verification. After releasing the provisional answer key on February 4 and inviting challenges till February 5, the NTA published the final answer key on Monday, dropping nine questions -- seven from Physics and two from Mathematics....