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Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Arrangements in place for EAMCET

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MAY 4. When the Chief Secretary, Mohan Kanda, picks up the code for EAMCET-2004 at 6 a.m. on Thursday at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University auditorium, he will be setting off action that will culminate in invigilators at 325 examination centres across the State opening question paper covers in front of 1,64,276 students, whose HB pencils, in turn, will shade circles on OMR sheets to determine their future.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, the EAMCET-2004 Chairman and JNTU Vice-Chancellor, Y. Venkatarami Reddy, said arrangements for the test were in place with question paper boxes to reach treasuries at 17 regional centres by Tuesday evening.

As many as 1,10,610 students would appear for the engineering stream while 53,666 candidates would try their luck in the agriculture and medical streams. This was against the 1,32,276 and 41,130 who wrote the test in 2003, the total decrease in the number of candidates this year being 9,130. The EAMCET Chairman, who warned candidates against writing any irrelevant matter on the OMR sheet or test booklets, including prayers and names of gods, since the same could disqualify them, said invigilators had been asked to direct candidates who came in full-sleeved shirts to fold the sleeves and also to check those who came wearing shoes. This was to prevent novel ways of malpractice detected last year when a candidate hid a cell phone in his socks with the earphone extended using a wire and hidden in his shirtsleeves.

Mr. Reddy also warned candidates not to bring any sort of electronic gadgets, including calculators and cell phones, into the halls and to compulsorily return the question paper booklet, which would help in rectifying any mistakes later. Students had to reach the test centres at least one hour before the commencement of the examination, he said, adding that there were no possibilities of question papers being leaked as in the case of several other popular entrance tests elsewhere in the country.

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