Boys Bag Top Ranks In EAMCET 2012
Online counselling for the engineering stream will begin from the 3rd week of July, while for medicine, it will begin from 20 July.
Hyderabad | 29th June 2012
Boys outperformed girls in EAMCET this year, bagging the top 4 ranks, in both engineering and medical streams.
Releasing the ranks of EAMCET 2012 at the State Council of Higher Education at Masab Tank, deputy chief minister Damodar Rajanarasimha said that 73.18% students cleared the engineering stream while 85.57% of aspirants passed in the medicine category.
In the engineering stream, Chinta Nitish Chandra of Rangareddy district got the first rank with 149 marks, followed by M V B Manoj Kumar of Visakhapatnam with 148 marks, N Rupesh Venkata of Krishna district with 147 marks, and K Dheera Reddy of Hyderabad with 146 marks.
In medicine, Reddy Vijay Niketan of Hyderabad stood first with 155 marks, followed by Sunkara Lokendra Pavan of Krishna with 154 marks, B V R S Sai Virinchi Yadav of Prakasam district with 153 marks and Kamani Naresh Babu of Warangal with 152 marks.
In the engineering stream, 2,23,866 candidates cleared the examination out of 2,83,477, taking the pass percentage to 73.18. In medicine and agriculture, 83,686 aspirants passed the examination out of 90,917 candidates, registering a pass percentage of 85.57.
Damodar Rajanarasimha said that online counselling for the engineering stream would begin from the 3rd week of July, while for medicine, it would begin from 20 July.
He said that 3.21 lakh seats are available in 667 engineering colleges, and 5,850 medical seats in 37 colleges. 1,870 dental seats are available in 21 colleges, and 21,840 pharmacy seats are available in 270 colleges.
EAMCET convenor Prof. N V Ramana Rao was also present at the event. (INN)
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