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Drop in pass percentage in EAMCET engineering stream

Staff Reporter

Counselling to begin in first week of July, says Minister

HYDERABAD: One question in chemistry has been deleted while answers have been altered for three other questions in maths, physics and zoology in this year's EAMCET, for which results were announced on Monday. The Technical Education Minister, Nayani Narsimha Reddy released the results.

Drop in pass percentage in the engineering stream and rise in the medical stream were other noticeable features of the EAMCET.

The highest mark in the engineering stream is 153 while in the medicine stream it is 156 out of the total 160 marks.

The EAMCET Committee Chairman and JNTU Vice-Chancellor, K. Rajagopal, said the committee decided to delete question No. 143 in the chemistry paper of the agriculture and medical stream. The initial key carried option "2" as the correct answer for it. In mathematics of the engineering category, option "1" of question No. 36 has been considered correct instead of "1" and "2" announced in the initial key. Similarly, in the physics paper of the engineering stream, options "1" and "4" for question No. 101 have been considered correct. In the medical and agriculture stream, option "2" has been considered as correct answer instead of option "3" as announced in the initial key for the question No. 80 of the zoology paper.

273 complaints

The committee received 273 complaints of which 44 were for engineering and 229 for the medical stream in response to the initial key. The changes were made based on the suggestions and approved by the Subject Experts Committee.

The pass percentage in the engineering stream decreased this year with 84,676 clearing the test as against 89,403 last year. The pass percentage stood at 73.7 as against 82 last year.

The percentage of girl students was bit higher at 76.4 compared to 72.5 of boys. However, in the medical stream, the pass percentage was a very high 90 per cent with 70,083 candidates passing the test out of the 79,827 students who appeared. Last year, 47, 288 qualified out of the 52,956 students.

Nod for more colleges

The Minister said counselling would begin from the first week July. There are nearly 82,000 seats in engineering of which 79,715 are in private colleges and 2,075 in university colleges. In the medical stream, the State has 3,350 seats in 27 medical colleges and 1,200 seats in 16 dental colleges. A few more colleges have got permission this year.

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