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By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 3. With a bit of suspense and drama, the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE), Mr. K. J. Alphonse, today declared the results of the entrance examination for the engineering courses in the State, in what he said was a `world- record' time.

Mr. Alphonse officially declared the results at a press conference held at the Government Guest House, Thycaud, by handing over a CD to ``a randomly selected candidate'', Mr. U. Jayakrishnan.

A few minutes later, the CEE, in what he described as ``my own style'', revealed that it was Mr. Jayakrishnan himself who was the first rank-holder.

Mr. Jayakrishnan was a student of the ISC course at the Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram. He secured 94.7 per cent in the entrance examination.

The second rank has been secured by Mr. S. Sandeep, a student of the CBSE course at the Vimalagiri Public School, Ernakulam, while the third rank went to Mr. Anil Vijayan, who did his CBSE course at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Thrissur.

These candidates have secured 92.9 and 90.3 per cent respectively in the examination.

Of the 35,122 candidates who registered, 34,381 took the entrance examination. Of these, 56.9 per cent are male candidates. A total of 33,309 candidates have figured in the rank list.

Candidates who have not scored at least 10 marks in each paper have been excluded from the rank list.

The largest number of candidates, 6,323, had Thiruvananthapuram as their examination centre while the second largest number, 5,249, appeared from Ernakulam. It was the Kerala University that presented the largest number of candidates, 6,203, while the Mahatma Gandhi University followed with 4,339 candidates.

There were 8,250 candidates from the CBSE/ISC stream. The top three ranks have gone to students from these courses. The entrance examination was held at 103 venues in all the 14 revenue districts of the State.

After a committee of experts examined the question papers for the engineering examination, it was found that certain questions were either out of syllabus, wrongly worded or having more than one correct answer.

These questions were deleted from the evaluation process and the CEE decided to grant full marks to all candidates irrespective of whether the candidates attempted the question or not.

``This year, a decision was taken not to invite reactions from the public on the answer key. Last year, there was an allegation that the questions were prepared by those who had no connection with the subjects.

This year, the question papers were prepared only by Plus Two teachers and each question was cross-checked by five eminent teachers from all over the country,'' the CEE pointed out.

The questions that were so deleted were: Physics and Chemistry: Version A1-7,27, 49 and 53; Version A2-20, 40, 62 and 66; Version A3-2,28,48 and 70, A4-15,37,41 and 67. Mathematics: Version B1- 14, 56,63,73, 101 and 114; Version B2-6,26,68,75,85 and 113. Version B3-10,17,27,55,68 and 88 and in Version B4, the questions deleted were, 31, 38, 76,89 and 109.

All the details regarding the 55 SC/ST candidates have been forwarded to the Vigilance Office, KIRTADS, for a detailed inquiry regarding the genuineness of the candidates' claims.

The results of these candidates are currently being withheld. The category/ community-wise list based on the provisional rank list published today will be published by the CEE in due course.

As of now, there are 7,779 seats for the various engineering courses in the 41 colleges spread across the State. Sanction has been granted for 18 colleges more with a minimum of 240 seats each in various branches.

Thus, the total seats available this time will be not less than 12,099.

The Commissioner said that he had been able to declare the results so fast due to the committed work put in by his staff. ``Some of the credit comes to me while most of it goes to my officers at the Commissionerate. Next year, the results will come out faster,'' he said.

In reply to a question, Mr. Alphonse said that the results of the medical entrance examination would be declared shortly.

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