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City students come out with flying colours

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Two share second rank in engineering stream

CELEBRATION TIME: Students of a corporate college in Vijayawada hail the good show by their institute in EAMCET on Thursday. — PHOTO: CH. VIJAYA BHASKAR

VIJAYAWADA: B. Chandrasekhar and G. Ravalipriya, students of the city-based Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions, brought laurels to the city by bagging the State's top most rank in the engineering stream of the Engineering Agriculture and Medicine Common Entrance Test (EAMCET-2007), the results of which were announced on Thursday.

As both of them scored 157 out of 160 marks, they were placed at second rank, which, in recent times, is a record for the city. Though the score in mathematics is taken as the criterion to break the tie, Chandrasekhar and Ravalipriya secured the honours here too by scoring 79 each. As a result, both of them have been placed at second rank without giving the first rank to either of them.

At the time of admissions, if competition arises between the two, age will determine the topper.

`Matter of pride'

Sri Chaitanya principal B. Ramakrishna said at a press conference that it was a matter of pride for the city that the top rankers emerged from here. Chandrasekhar studied 10th class at Siddhartha School in Eedupugallu, while Ravalipriya was a student of V.P. Siddhartha Public School. Four other students of Narayana Educational Institutions secured good ranks in the engineering stream.

Narayana Campus in-charge G.C. Guravaiah and IIT Academy director P. Nandagopal said that the subject-wise monitoring by the qualified staff had contributed to the improvement of even slow learners.

Some of the local students of Narayana Institutions with good ranks were Ch. Sirisha (34), B.T. Krishna (36), M. Ranjit Kumar (42) and V. Vikas (61). There was a difference of only six marks between the 41st ranker and the first ranker. Students of Nalanda Educational Institutions bagged 13 and 22 ranks, according to a statement from the institutions' correspondent A. Vijaya Babu. P. Jagannadh secured 13th rank, while S. Harikrishna secured 22nd rank.

Medicine topper

Guntur: Narsaraopet-based photographer's daughter Sravana Sandhya got 10th rank in the medicine stream of EAMCET-2007 with 159 marks, the best in Guntur district.

A student of Sri Chaitanya College, she intends to be a cardiologist. In the engineering stream, Sri Chaitanya student G. Somasekhara Rao (154 marks) got 16th rank, Krishna Kapil (153) 19th and Pavan Manoj 44th rank.

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