The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued a formal correction to the gender-wise and category-wise data of candidates for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025, acknowledging a typographical error in its earlier published data.
The original data had erroneously flipped the number of male and female candidates, leading to widespread inaccurate reporting that more female candidates had appeared for the engineering entrance exam this year.
In the initial release, the "Male" and "Female" labels were mistakenly interchanged in the category-wise distribution of candidates. Upon correction, it is now confirmed that male candidates continue to outnumber female candidates in both registration and appearance across both sessions of JEE (Main) Paper 1 (BE/B.Tech).
Here is a breakdown:
Session 1 (January 2025):
Total registered: 15,39,848
Male: 10,14,523
Female: 5,25,324
Third gender: 1
Total appeared: 14,75,103
Male: 9,73,784
Female: 5,01,319
Third gender: 0
Session 2 (April 2025):
Total registered: 10,61,840
Male: 7,26,205
Female: 3,35,635
Total appeared: 9,92,350
Male: 6,81,871
Female: 3,10,479
While female participation remains strong and continues to grow steadily, the corrected data affirms that male candidates still form the majority in India’s premier engineering entrance test.
