After a depressive EAMCET last year in the form of leakage and repeated test, candidates this year were lucky to have faced an ‘easy’ examination that has not tested them to their full calibre.
The exam held on Friday passed off without any untoward incident registering 93.43% attendance in engineering and 92.97% in the agriculture and pharmacy stream. Subject experts termed the test ‘very easy’ this year and students faced some tough questions only in physics paper. However, even the physics paper was easy compared to previous year.
Subject experts from various colleges claimed some errors in the question paper. According to them, question numbers 87, 98 and 110 in Set “A” were problematic for the candidates as there was no correct answer given in the options. However, EAMCET Convenor and officials did not confirm this. The paper would be scrutinised by subject experts and the officials would reveal tomorrow if there were any mistakes.
One-minute rule
Several students missed out on the examination as they failed to reach in time at several places.
However, the number was small compared to previous years. Two students were refused entry into Keshav Memorial College in Narayanguda as they arrived two minutes late. Similar incidents were reported at a few other places in Telangana.
EAMCET-2017 Convenor N. Yadaiah said attendance was more than 90% in all the Telangana centres. However, it was less than 85% in Vijayawada and Vishakapatnam and just 78.08% in Tirupati in agriculture and pharmacy stream while in engineering stream it was just above 70%.
