: Six of the top ten rankers in the agriculture and medical streams of Andhra Pradesh Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET)–2016, the results of which were declared by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday, are from Telangana and as many number in the top 10 performers are girls.
The rank-holders from 1 to 10 in that order are Machani Hemalatha (156 marks) from Kurnool, Erla Sathvik Reddy (155) from Ranga Reddy district., Ammakola Yagna Priya (153) from Saidabad (Hyderabad), Chitluri Neha (152) from Vijayawada, Ikram Khan (152) from Hyderabad, Sonti Sahiti Savitri (152) from Hyderabad, Peddiredla Sailaja (150) from Visakhapatnam, Balabhadra Meenan (150) from Warangal, Daram Siva Kumar (150) from Nalgonda, and Konda Sai Pradeep Reddy (150) from Prakasam district.
Mr. Naidu said he would constitute a committee of officials to draft the syllabus required by the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) which has been put off to 2017 following a plea by 23 out of 29 States to keep it in abeyance till they changed their syllabi and took other necessary steps, most of them having conducted their own entrance tests before the NEET came into picture.
“The A.P government will gear up for NEET from the next year. I am sure our students will prove their mettle like they have been doing for a long time in the IIT Joint Entrance Examination and Common Entrance Test for the Indian Institutes of Technology,” he asserted, and added that the number of seats available in medical colleges in A.P would remain the same even after NEET comes into force. A total of 2,92,468 candidates applied for EAMCET (for all the three streams – engineering, medical and agriculture) and 2,78,218 wrote the test. There was an increase in the number of applications compared to last year, by 37,055.
Ranks were not given to 6,669 candidates due to non-disclosure of Intermediate marks by the boards (not A.P Board for Intermediate Education) where they studied. Marks in EAMCET were given 75 per cent weightage and Inter marks accounted for the rest. Ministers K. Srinivas, G. Srinivasa Rao and P. Pulla Rao, APSCHE Chairman L. Venugopala Reddy, EAMCET-2016 Chairman and JNTUK Vice-Chancellor V.S.S. Kumar were among those present.
The number of seats available in medical colleges in A.P. will remain the same even after NEET comes into force
N. Chandrababu Naidu
