Two candidates, Aryan Gupta from Punjab and Panshul Bansal from Haryana, secured the highest score of 715 (out of 720 marks) in the re-examination; 19 candidates crossed the 700-mark threshold; of the top 138 candidates (scores above 690), 93% cracked the exam on their first attempt, with 99% of them aged between 17 and 19 years