Hyderabad, July 22: Nearly 23,000 students who qualified in the Eamcet examination, will not be able to join any course as they failed to clear the mandatory Intermediate public examination (IPE). Ironically, 14 students who got zero marks in the Eamcet examination, still qualified based on the IPE marks scored by them.
While announcing the Eamcet ranks today, minister for technical education MV Ramana Rao said the percentage of students who got qualified in engineering after the ranks were announced was 82.09 percentage. Whereas it was 88.71 percent before the ranks were announced. In agriculture and medicine stream, the percentage of qualified students after ranks were announced was 86.83 percentage.
The announcement of Eamcet ranks were delayed this year after the state government decided to permit the students to re-apply for revaluation of their papers.
JNTU officials said that the officials of IPE are still not certain whether they furnished the mark details of all the students.
Besides, officials also said that they do not have information about 900 students who belong to CBSE, vocational courses and others.
Ramana Rao said that engineering counselling would begin from August third week. When questioned about the status of the proposed fee hike, the minister brushed it aside saying that the issue is still under consideration.
But sources in JNTU said that the decision on fee hike will be announced after the byelections are over.
JNTU vice-chancellor DN Reddy expressed concern that the quality of students joining the engineering stream is decreasing.
“Hence I suggested to increase the qualifying marks in Eamcet to be increased from 25 per cent to 40 per cent,’’ the VC said.
Meanwhile, the original plan to increase weightage of Intermediate marks upto 50 percent might not be a reality. As of now 75 percent weightage is given to Eamcet and 25 to Intermediate marks.
According to the ranks announced, MD Gousejani of Visakhapatnam topped the list in engineering stream, followed by Janardhan Reddy (2nd rank) of Guntur, Boyapati Pallavi (3rd rank) of Vijayawada, Satyavolu Sai Nitish (fourth rank) of Kakinada and Yangala Lakshmipathi (fifth rank).
The topper in the medicine stream is Ravinuthala Lalitha of Hyderabad, while Narapaneni Kiranmayee of Vijayawada bagged the 2nd rank, M Rahul (3rd rank) from Hyderabad, Sri Lakshmi Atthota (4th rank) from Vijayawada and Challa Madhuri (5th rank) of Hyderabad.
–Agencies