India, Feb. 19 -- Competitiveness ended at home for identical twins Mahroof Ahmed Khan and Masroor Ahmed Khan, as they both scored an identical 285 in their JEE Main, hitting the 99.998th percentile. The twins from Bhubneswar, students of Allen Career Institute, appeared for the JEE Main 2026 in the same shift at the same centre.

The exam result was declared on Monday. Born on May 7, 2008, the brothers studied together throughout, from school to coaching classes. According to their coaching institute, their mother, Dr Zeenat Begum, had been a gynaecologist working with the Odisha Government since the 1990s, before she resigned to move to Kota with them in 2023.

"We shifted to Kota in 2023, initially for Olympiad preparation after both b...