JEE Main 2026 Session 1: Twin Brothers From Odisha Secure Same Percentile

The Top Scorers in the JEE Main Result 2026: Many students did very well on this year's JEE Mains exam, which is the test for admission to top engineering schools like the IITs. As many as 12 students got a perfect 100 percentile. Twin brothers stood out because they both got the same score on the very hard test.

Mahroof and Masroor Ahmed Khan from Bhubaneswar, Odisha took the BE/BTech exam together and got the same percentile.

Better performance through healthy competition
The twin brothers and their mother, who quit her job to help them get ready, have been living in Kota, Rajasthan. Mahroof said that the two's healthy competition with each other was a big part of what made them do better. He said that he now wants to pass the JEE Advanced exam and study Computer Science at IIT Bombay.We studied together and cleared up any questions we had from the start. We encouraged each other when things didn't go well. This made the competition fairer and made people work harder. We are from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. My mom lives with us right now. She quit her job to stay with us and help us get ready. I want to pass the JEE Advanced and then study Computer Science at IIT Bombay. Mahroof said, "In the end, I want to be an IAS officer."

Same Time to Study

Masroor said that he and his brother always studied at the same time, which helped them learn a lot from each other.I've been in Kota since Class 10, and for the past three years, my teachers have been helping me get ready using coaching materials. I always stayed motivated, which helped me do well on the JEE Main. We studied together and kept to the same schedule. Masroor said, "We pushed each other and learned a lot from each other."

From January 21 to January 29, the Session 1 test was given on computers. There were two shifts for the test every day:

The morning shift is from 9 AM to 12 PM.

The afternoon shift runs from 3 PM to 6 PM.