BENGALURU: Students from Bengaluru secured six of the top 10 ranks in Comed-K's Under Graduate Entrance Test 2022, whose results were announced on Tuesday. A Venkat, from TN's Hosur and a student of Sri Ram Global School, Marathahalli, bagged the first rank. Fifty-two candidates from Karnataka are in the top 100.
The toppers from Bengaluru are: Vishal Bysani (2nd rank), Apoorv Tandon (3rd), Siddhartha Singh (5th), Boya Haren Sathvik (6th) and Aarav Giri (7th). According to a release from Comed-K, as many as 5,930 candidates are in 90th to 100th percentile. Out of this, 1,768 candidates are from Karnataka. tnn
Toppers were preparing for entrance tests when results were announced
Toppers from outside Karnataka in top 10 are: Kanishk Sharma from Uttar Pradesh (fourth), Sneha Pareek from Guwahati (eighth), Vishaka Agarwal from Jaipur (ninth), Srijan Ranjan from Jharkhand (10th).
UGET 2022 for admissions to undergraduate engineering courses in private engineering colleges in Karnataka for the academic year 2022-23 was held on June 19. The test was conducted online in 230 centres in 154 cities. As many as 57,387 candidates, including 36,278 from outside Karnataka, wrote it.
Of the 5,620 candidates between the 80th and 90th percentile, 1,753 candidates are from Karnataka.
The toppers were busy preparing for the upcoming entrances when the results were announced. "Venkat was just entering the exam hall for BITS-Pilani entrance test when his teacher informed him about the first rank. It might have boosted his confidence," said his father Amarendra N, an engineer with TCS, Whitefield.
The second rank holder - Vishal of Mahesh PU College in Chamarajpet - was in a six-hour internal test and had not heard about his result until Tuesday evening. Son of a techie couple, Vishal is also targeting JEE Advanced. "He is disciplined and puts in a lot of effort. He spends 7-10 hours in his studies and that would have definitely helped," said Vishal's father Suresh Bysani.
Third rank holder Apoorv wants to pursue mechanical or electronics once he cracks the entrance tests. "Physics comes naturally to me. I'd rather look at my passion than salary," said Apoorv, of NPS-Yelahanka.
Rank cards have been generated and are available to the candidates in their 'applicant login' on the ComedK website (www.comedk.org).
