The Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET), which had many firsts this year like online exam option, introduction of biometric attendance and conduct of test only in Government institutions, was conducted without any hiccups on Sunday.
The medical test saw a decline of two per cent attendance with 88.02 per cent applicants taking the test while engineering registered attendance of 92.34 per cent. The drop in the attendance was not related to NEET issue but many in Andhra Pradesh stayed away from the test, said EAMCET Convenor N.V. Ramana Rao.
Students taking online medical exam at Osmania University faced some problems with 36 computers not working due to short circuit related to Saturday night’s rain. However, since the printed booklets were kept as reserve the students were asked to take the offline test. The college, however, arranged three generators to accommodate 154 students in six labs.
“The Government institutions have best of facilities and this exam proved that any exam can be held without private colleges’ support,” Prof. Rao said. Some of the Government and national institutions where the exam was held included the Telangana Police Academy, IIIT Hyderabad, NALSAR and BITS Hyderabad.
At a few test centres, it was noticed that some candidates approached the test centre with the old hall ticket issued for the originally dated exam on May 2. However, the Chief Superintendents permitted the candidates and issued buffer OMR answer sheets.
Five complaints
Prof. Rao said they received only five complaints of students being turned away for coming late by a couple of minutes and this was negligible from among nearly 2.4 lakh candidates. Out of the 1,44,510 candidates in engineering 1,33442 candidates appeared while in the medical exam 1,02,012 registered of which 89,792 took the test.
For the first time, biometric finger prints data and photographs of all the candidates were collected and it went off successfully without complaints. “This will help to curb impersonation and to verify the genuineness of the candidates at several stages like counselling, admission and fee reimbursement. A total of 534 candidates opted for online mode of examination in the medical stream of which 444 candidates appeared. The Preliminary Key was released by evening and placed on ‘www.tseamcet.in’. Objections can be sent to ‘keyobjectionstseamcet2016@gmail. com’ by 5 p.m. on May 18.
Results
Results are likely to be released on May 20 though the EAMCET committee had earlier announced that they would be released on May 27.
