Girls fare better than boys in EAMCET

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JUNE 18. As usual, girls fared better than boys in the EAMCET results of which were announced here on Monday. A total of 1,39,346 candidates appeared in the engineering stream of which 1,17,236 qualified, including 33,271 girls. In the agriculture and medical stream, 39,203 candidates appeared of whom 35,229 qualified, including 16,930 girls.

Besides, 15,731 SC and 3030 ST candidates qualified in the engineering stream and 9,577 SC and 2,301 ST candidates qualified in the agriculture and medical stream.

The Minister for Technical Education, Mr. A. Rajendra Prasad, released the results at JNTU. The Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Y. Venkatarami Reddy, and chairman, A.P. State Council for Higher Education, Mr. C. Subba Rao, were also present.

After scrutinising the responses made by the public to the initial key, an expert committee recommended deletion of question No. 79 in mathematics and question 114 and 148 in physics (E- stream). For question 53 in zoology (AM-stream), alternative answer 1 is recommended in addition to the answer 3 already given in the initial key. For question 149 in physics (AM-stream) alternative answer 4 is recommended in addition to answer 2 given in the initial key. Similarly, for question 104 of physics (AM- stream) answer 2 is recommended instead of answer 1 given in the initial key. These recommendations have been incorporated while processing the results, the Minister said.

He said, as compared to last year, the number of qualified candidates in the engineering stream had increased while those in the agriculture and medical stream registered a fall.

Mr. Venkatarami Reddy said the JNTU was releasing the EAMCET results for the fourth consecutive year. He thanked the Government for reposing confidence in the university.

Mr. G. Prashanth bagged the first rank in the medicine stream, according to Kakatiya Academy where he studied. The academy students Ms. Farha Jabeen bagged the fifth rank while Mr. D. Sriram got the eighth rank. According to academy officials, their students bagged thirteen more ranks. K. Yoganand of Eluru in West Godavari secured the second rank in medical stream. The fifth rank in medical stream went to Usha Kiran of Guntur and ninth rank to Sanjeev Reddy. In the engineering stream, the seventh rank was bagged by V. Laxmi Devi. All of them are students of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institute.

Meanwhile, the institute Director, Dr. B.S. Rao, claimed that its students had bagged three State ranks (below 10), 38 ranks (below 100), 203 (below 500) and 420 (below 1000) in the medical stream. In the engineering stream, the Chaitanya students got one rank (below 10), 19 (below 100), 102 (below 500) and 186 (below 1000).

The Guntur Vikas educational Institutions have claimed that their students - D. Varun and P. Vamsi Mohan - bagged 3rd and 6th ranks respectively. The other successful students were A. Prasanthi and A.M. Ramana Reddy (both 11th rank), P. Raghuram (15th rank and K. Praveen Chowdary (16th rank). Vigyan Vidyalayam Junior College student R. Giridhar bagged the fourth rank in the medicine stream.

All the rank-holders attributed their success to the coaching and encouragement given by teachers at Chaitanya. Yoganand, who got the second rank in the medical stream, said he had put in long hours at study. Usha Kiran, the fifth ranker, thanked her teachers for the coaching they gave and her mother for the encouragement she provided.

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