As many as 14 students who got zero marks in all subjects were declared as qualified in Eamcet this year. Eight of them can also enter engineering colleges as no minimum marks are stipulated for scheduled caste/scheduled tribe students and the state has a copious 2.25 lakh seats to offer.
For the general category, the total marks in Eamcet is 160 and the qualifying mark is 25 per cent of the total which means students should score 40 marks for qualifying.
Interestingly, it is pretty difficult to get zero marks in Eamcet. The 14 students could easily have scored nearly 30 marks even if they had chosen to blurb a single option among A,B,C, and D for all questions. This year, the pattern of exam was such that the students could have got 30 to 32 marks for selecting the ‘A’ option for every question, 40 to 42 marks if they selected ‘B', 40 for ‘C’ and 30 for ‘D’. But the 14 students did not even bother to try their luck even in that manner.
The eight students in the engineering stream and six in the medical stream were so lazy that they did not even bother to blurb options in OMR answer sheet and handed over blank papers to invigilators after sitting in the exam centre for full three hours as they are sure that under the SC/ST quota they are bound to get a seat.
Thanks to the Medical Council of India’s stipulation that candidates should get a minimum of 50 per cent marks Eamcet and in BiPC subjects in Intermediate, these students are not eligible for admissions into medical courses.
However, eight of them can get admission in engineering colleges if they want. “We will give ranks to them after giving weight to their intermediate marks,” said an Eamcet official. “They can appear for engineering counselling and claim seats. It is easy to secure seats in engineering colleges since the state has around 2.25 lakh seats in 650 colleges.”
For all you know, these zero graders would be building bridges or designing software a few years from now.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Auto driver’s son tops Eamcet
He lost his elder brother just months before the Eamcet exams. His father earns a couple of hundred rupees driving an auto and his mother works in neighbourhood houses. He is Mohammed Gouse Jani from Visakhapatnam, topper of this year’s Eamcet.
Jani scored a staggering 159 marks out of 160, the highest marks in the engineering stream, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.
The student surmounted unbelievable odds to reach his goal. “I am blessed by the almighty. At one point of time, I did not have the money to study and now people are earnestly willing to help me. I thank them for their kind support and I also thank Narayana Sir for giving me free education to complete my Intermed-iate,” said an overjoyed Jani who said he studied 10 hours a day for the exams.
The lack of basic amenities in life did not deter him from dreaming of becoming an engineer, if not for anything else, but to help out his parents, who, he says, made great sacrifices for him. His father, Mohd Ameer earns Rs 100 to Rs 200 daily by driving autos and his mother, Shehnaz, works in nearby houses. But “this has never held them back from facilitating my education,” says Jani, dedicating his success to his parents.
The family lost their elder son in January, just months ahead of the Inter exams and Eamcet. But on Wednesday there was no sorrow in the household.
“I got a call from the Corporate College zonal in-charge that my son had topped the state in Eamcet. I was dumbstruck for a few seconds and immediately broke the news to my wife Shehnaz and my parents. It soon spread like wildfire in our locality — Muslim Thatichetlapalem — and people started flooding into my house,” said an ecstatic Ameer.
Eamcet Top-5
Engineering stream
Md. Gouse Jani, Vizag (159)
B. Pallavi, Vijayawada (159)
A. Janardhan Reddy, Guntur (159)
S. Sai Nitish, Kakinada (158)
K. Kiran Babu, Krishna (157)
Medical stream
M. Rahul, Hyderabad (156)
R. Lalitha, Hyderabad (156)
N. Kiranmayee, Vijayawada (156)
A. Sri Lakshmi, Vijayawada(155)
V. Saikiran, Hyderabad (154)
Jani scored a staggering 159 marks out of 160, the highest marks in the engineering stream, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.
The student surmounted unbelievable odds to reach his goal. “I am blessed by the almighty. At one point of time, I did not have the money to study and now people are earnestly willing to help me. I thank them for their kind support and I also thank Narayana Sir for giving me free education to complete my Intermed-iate,” said an overjoyed Jani who said he studied 10 hours a day for the exams.
The lack of basic amenities in life did not deter him from dreaming of becoming an engineer, if not for anything else, but to help out his parents, who, he says, made great sacrifices for him. His father, Mohd Ameer earns Rs 100 to Rs 200 daily by driving autos and his mother, Shehnaz, works in nearby houses. But “this has never held them back from facilitating my education,” says Jani, dedicating his success to his parents.
The family lost their elder son in January, just months ahead of the Inter exams and Eamcet. But on Wednesday there was no sorrow in the household.
“I got a call from the Corporate College zonal in-charge that my son had topped the state in Eamcet. I was dumbstruck for a few seconds and immediately broke the news to my wife Shehnaz and my parents. It soon spread like wildfire in our locality — Muslim Thatichetlapalem — and people started flooding into my house,” said an ecstatic Ameer.
Eamcet Top-5
Engineering stream
Md. Gouse Jani, Vizag (159)
B. Pallavi, Vijayawada (159)
A. Janardhan Reddy, Guntur (159)
S. Sai Nitish, Kakinada (158)
K. Kiran Babu, Krishna (157)
Medical stream
M. Rahul, Hyderabad (156)
R. Lalitha, Hyderabad (156)
N. Kiranmayee, Vijayawada (156)
A. Sri Lakshmi, Vijayawada(155)
V. Saikiran, Hyderabad (154)
Monday, May 31, 2010
EAMCET: bid to leak medical paper thwarted
An audacious attempt to ‘leak' the medical paper of EAMCET was thwarted by officials on Sunday. This also led to the arrest a few persons involved in the racket apart from some aspirants.
Candidates involved in the episode were picked up from KSRM Engineering College centre in Kadapa and GPR Engineering College in Kurnool when they tried to enter their allotted examination centres with microphones stitched to their shirt collars.
Medicos involved?
“About 150 persons have been picked up so far by the police and it was found that some medical college students were involved,” a senior official said. Initial enquiries revealed that the ‘beneficiaries' were willing to pay up to Rs. 5 lakh if their attempt proved to be successful.
The Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE) Chairman, K.C. Reddy, EAMCET-2010 Chairman D.N. Reddy and Convener N.V. Ramana Rao assured students there was no leak of the paper and they need not worry on that count.
At a press conference, they said few complaints were received on Saturday evening about a possible paper leak and the police were alerted immediately. The police did an excellent job of tracking the people behind the racket and also the students overnight. And when these students turned up for the medical stream of the exam, they were picked up and four microphones confiscated.
Candidates involved in the episode were picked up from KSRM Engineering College centre in Kadapa and GPR Engineering College in Kurnool when they tried to enter their allotted examination centres with microphones stitched to their shirt collars.
Medicos involved?
“About 150 persons have been picked up so far by the police and it was found that some medical college students were involved,” a senior official said. Initial enquiries revealed that the ‘beneficiaries' were willing to pay up to Rs. 5 lakh if their attempt proved to be successful.
The Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE) Chairman, K.C. Reddy, EAMCET-2010 Chairman D.N. Reddy and Convener N.V. Ramana Rao assured students there was no leak of the paper and they need not worry on that count.
At a press conference, they said few complaints were received on Saturday evening about a possible paper leak and the police were alerted immediately. The police did an excellent job of tracking the people behind the racket and also the students overnight. And when these students turned up for the medical stream of the exam, they were picked up and four microphones confiscated.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
T-trouble returns to haunt Eamcet
Eamcet is headed for fresh trouble in the wake of the volatile situation in the state following the arrest of the Kadapa MP, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Friday.
JNTU-Hyderabad had made all the arrangements for the smooth conduct of Eamcet to be held on May 30, but the call for a ‘Telangana bandh’ given by the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee on May 29, a day ahead of the exam, is worrying exam officials.
Eamcet is a common exam conducted across the state simultaneously in over 5,000 centres on a single day. Any disruption in even one centre means the exam will have to be cancelled throughout the state.
The officials are praying that the bandh goes off peacefully and no fresh violence breaks out in any part of the state on Saturday.
The Eamcet convener, Prof. Ramana Rao, said there is no change in the exam schedule as of now and it will be held on Sunday as scheduled.
“We have already sent the entire exam material and staff to all the centres in the districts. We are ready to conduct the exam on Sunday,” Prof. Rao said.
Eamcet is already delayed by two weeks this year due to student agitations in support and against bifurcation of the state in December last year.
The exam is usually held by May 15 every year, but was postponed to May 30 this year.
Any further delay would affect admissions for engineering, medical and pharmacy courses in the ensuing academic year.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Eamcet on May 30, OU tests from June 4
The Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) announced on Monday the new exam dates for various CET examinations to be held in the state. While the Eamcet will be conducted by the Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University (JNTU) from May 30, the PGCET will be conducted by Osmania University on June 4.
Announcing the exam dates, M Venkata Ramana Rao, the state minister for technical education, said that efforts would be made to make the examinations as error-free as possible. Announcing the schedule, Rao said that Ecet will be held on May 24 by JNTU and the Integrated Common Entrance Test on May 27 by Andhra University. The other exams include Ed-Cet, which will be conducted by Osmania University on June 13 and the PECET to be held by Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur. Lawcet and PGLCET, will be conducted by the Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati on June 10.
Meanwhile, M D Christopher, secretary of the state council of higher education, said there was a proposal to make Eamcet question papers available to students. Earlier, the students had to write their answers in the same booklet that had questions. However, last year the Eamcet question paper had a few errors and the candidates had to be awarded as many as 14 marks. So this year, there is a proposal to give students answer sheets along with the question paper.
Another proposal to allow late comers to appear for the Eamcet exmas is also being considered. “No students is allowed to enter the exam hall even five minutes late, but a proposal was mooted to allow a student into the hall within 15 minutes of the beginning of the exam. But both these decisions would be taken by the Eamcet committee, which will announce them within a week,” said Christopher.
Announcing the exam dates, M Venkata Ramana Rao, the state minister for technical education, said that efforts would be made to make the examinations as error-free as possible. Announcing the schedule, Rao said that Ecet will be held on May 24 by JNTU and the Integrated Common Entrance Test on May 27 by Andhra University. The other exams include Ed-Cet, which will be conducted by Osmania University on June 13 and the PECET to be held by Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur. Lawcet and PGLCET, will be conducted by the Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati on June 10.
Meanwhile, M D Christopher, secretary of the state council of higher education, said there was a proposal to make Eamcet question papers available to students. Earlier, the students had to write their answers in the same booklet that had questions. However, last year the Eamcet question paper had a few errors and the candidates had to be awarded as many as 14 marks. So this year, there is a proposal to give students answer sheets along with the question paper.
Another proposal to allow late comers to appear for the Eamcet exmas is also being considered. “No students is allowed to enter the exam hall even five minutes late, but a proposal was mooted to allow a student into the hall within 15 minutes of the beginning of the exam. But both these decisions would be taken by the Eamcet committee, which will announce them within a week,” said Christopher.
