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EAMCET: three share top honours

G. Gopalakrishna Murthy

(From left) Kota Keerthana, Nalla Raveena and Santosh Swaminathan.

HYDERABAD: Students of corporate colleges bagged all the top scores in the EAMCET this year with Narayana students taking four out of five top five scores in the engineering stream while the top three positions in the medical stream were taken by Sri Chaitanya students.

Gannavarapu Gopalakrishna Murthy of Visakhapatnam region along with C. Shivakumar and Shaik Allauddin of Hyderabad region, scored 153 marks out of 160, while the fourth and fifth top scorers are Bonthala Shravan of Karimnagar and Lankapalli Santosh Kumar of Hyderabad who scored 152 and 150 marks respectively.

Gopalakrishna Murthy is sure to get the first rank as he scored 600 out of 600 in the optional subjects in Intermediate. Similar is the case of Shaik Allauddin. They both belong to Narayana institutions.

In the medical stream, top scorers are Kota Keerthana, Santosh Swaminathan and Nalla Raveena, who all scored 149 marks each and they belong to Sri Chaitanya while the next two positions were taken by N. Ramakrishna and Golkonda Bala Aditya who secured 147 each.

Technical Education Minister M. V. Ramana Rao, who released the results, said the final rankings would be given on June 22 after results of supplementary examinations are released.

Schedule for web-based counselling and procedure to be adopted by the candidates will also be announced later.

About 2,72,086 candidates cleared the engineering examination out of the 3,02,646 who appeared registering 86.9 per cent pass.

In the medical stream, 60,351 students passed the test out of the 62,656 candidates and the pass percentage is 96.3.

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