The Hindu : Over 40,000 fail to qualify in engg. stream

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Sunday, May 18, 2003

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Southern States - Andhra Pradesh

Over 40,000 fail to qualify in engg. stream

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD MAY 17. An unusually large number of students have failed to qualify in the engineering stream of the EAMCET this year, apparently owing to the changes brought about in the question paper pattern. Over 40,000 students have failed to cross the qualifying mark. The results were declared here on Saturday by the Minister for Technical Education, N. Anjaneyulu.

Out of 1,30,324 students, who appeared, only 89,743 cleared the engineering stream test registering a pass percentage of 69 while 33,866 students out of 40,310 in the medical and agricultural stream qualified, registering a pass percentage of 83.

Girls continued their domination in both streams with a higher pass percentage than boys. The pass percentage among the Muslim minority candidates is also quite high.

The Minister said that several objections were raised on the key released but no questions were deleted. However, the expert committee found more than one answer to be correct in some questions and they were taken into consideration while valuating.

In the engineering category, question no. 156 of the chemistry paper was found to be having two answers correct.

In the agriculture and medical category, two questions in chemistry, one on physics and one in botany were found to be having two answers correct.

The top ten scorers in the engineering stream are G. Sivakumar (151), K. Srinivasulu (148), Sri Sunil Dutta (148), T, Srinivas (148), D. Suryanarayana (148), N.V.L. Narayana (147), A.V. Krishna Swaroop (147), K. Karthik (147), T.V. Satyanarayana (147) and M. Sai Krishna (146).

In the medical streams, the top ten scorers are M. Hitesh Reddy (158), P.K. Karthik (157), D. Samuel Sandeep (157), M. Praneeth (157), N.V. Krishna Chand (156), M. Praveen Royal (156), S. Namratha Rao (154), Swati (154), Riyaz Ahmed (154) and T. Keerthi (154).

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