OJEE results 2020 declared: Know the toppers

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination results (OJEE results 2020) has been published.

Skill Development and Technical Education Minister declared OJEE results 2020 and released the Results Booklet on Friday.

The candidates can download their rank cards from the OJEE websites (www.ojee.nic.in, and www.odishajee.com).

This year, a record number (79,754) registered for the examination, out of which 49,267 candidates appeared the test. All have been allotted ranks in their corresponding courses as per their performance in the examination.

Sovit Patel has topped in B.Tech stream while Soumya Ranjan Routray has secured top position in B.Pharm. Subhakanta Sahoo scored rank one in MBA stream.

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, OJEE 2020, which is normally held in the month of May, was postponed a number of times and was finally held during October 12-22 in compliance with relevant COVID guidelines.

The Entrance Examination was held for various technical /professional courses, such as B Tech., LE-Tech (Dip), LE-Tech (B Sc.), B. Pharm, MBA, MCA, Int MBA, LE-Pharm, M. Pharm, M Arch, M Plan and M. Tech (11 specialisations) running in different government and private institutes/Universities of the state for the academic year 2020-21.

This year, for the first time, OJEE was held in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode for all the courses. The examination was conducted at 54 Test Centres in 21 cities of the state as well as 5 no. of Test Centres in three cities outside Odisha, namely Kolkata, Ranchi and Patna.