Rashik Das of Assam narrowly missed a perfect hundred but topped in the all-India engineering entrance JEE Main's January edition from the northeast with a score of 99.96 percentile. The results were declared on Tuesday.
Rajdipa Sutradhar of Tripura came second with a percentile of 99.74.
Saurav Kumar Rai of Meghalaya stood third from the northeast by getting a percentile of 99.7.
Padi Napa of Arunachal was the topper from the frontier state by scoring 98.8, followed by
Manipur topper Ayekpam Lankhonba (98.11).