Girls outperformed boys in the Common Entrance Examination for admission into Polytechnic courses for academic year 2012-13 in the State with a pass percentage of 85.28 against boys’ 79.37 per cent.
Releasing the results of CEEP at his chambers in Secretariat, Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha informed that of 2,28,352 candidates who appeared for the examination, as many as 1,84,778 candidates have qualified registering a pass percentage of 80.92.
Of 1,68,622 boys who appeared for the examination 1,33,839 qualified while 50,939 girls cleared the examination out of 59,730 who appeared for the test.
Damodar Rajanarasimha said that the web counseling for admission into the polytechnic courses would begin in June and a notification for this process would be issued in due course in leading newspapers by the Commissioner of Technical Education. He said that the rank cards would be dispatched to qualified candidates from May 22. All the top 10 rankers hail from Godavari districts.
Meanwhile, three candidates –Ganni Surya Teja (East Godavari), Gubbala Sai Chand and Sathi Rupasri Harindra Reddy (West Godavari district) have secured the first rank with highest marks of 118 out of 120.
K Ananth Teja of West Godavari district secured fourth rank followed by S Sanjay kumar, J Veera Venkata Durga purnachand, V Raviteja, S Chaitanya Sivaram Reddy, B Jagadeesh, A Karthik, B Mohan Saikrishna Viswanandh and M Taraka Sivasatya Venkatesh.
Khammam district stood top with the pass percentage of 86 while the state capital Hyderabad occupied the last position with the lowest percentage of 70.69. (INN)