Women candidates achieved a record qualification rate of 23.4% in the JEE-Advanced 2026 entrance exam, according to data released by IIT Roorkee.
A total of 10,107 women qualified for admission out of 40,562 female candidates who appeared for both papers, crossing the 10,000 mark for the first time in six years.
Additionally, the qualification rate for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates increased sharply by 9.8 and 8.1 percentage points respectively.