India, July 16 -- The results for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate courses were declared on Thursday, with the National Testing Agency saying 11.25 lakh from among 20 lakh candidates had qualified. The testing agency announced Aryan Gupta from Punjab and Panshul Bansal from Haryana as the joint toppers of the exam.

Both Gupta and Bansal secured 715 out of 720 marks in the exam.

However, among those who qualified, 58 per cent were women. The qualifying rate stood at 56.8 per cent for women and 55.1 per cent for men.

19 candidates scored above 700 marks in the exam. 138 candidates scored above 690, with 93 per cent of these appearing for the first-time for the exam, and 99 per cent of them between the a...