THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A comparatively higher number of CISCE and CBSE students continued to secure spots in the top 5,000 in Kerala engineering entrance examination when the rank list was announced on Thursday.
Of the 1,144 CISCE candidates who appeared for the test, 242 (21.2%) found a place in the first 5,000 ranks. In case of CBSE candidates, it was 2,602 (18.8%) of the total 13841 who appeared for the test.
But, only 6.56% of students from state higher secondary stream could find place in the first 5,000 ranks.
Only 2,112 of the total 32,180 students who appeared for the exam from HSE figured in the list. The stream-wise break up of candidates last year in the first 5,000 ranks were state (6.14%), CBSE (17.12%) and CISCE (17.74%).
Of the 73,977 candidates who appeared for the engineering entrance test at 418 venues in the first week of August, 51,031 qualified. However, only 47,629 candidates who submitted the marks they obtained for key subjects in the qualifying exam figured in the rank list. Higher education minister R Bindu announced the rank list on Thursday, three days after the commissioner for entrance examination had opened the candidate’s portal for option submission.
As many as 24,143 girls and 23,484 boy students figured in the engineering rank list.
Boys cornered 78 of the top 100 ranks. Seven boys and three girls shared the top 10 ranks.
Students from Ernakulam (21), Thiruvananthapuram (17) and Kozhikode (11) emerged as toppers in the first 100 ranks.
The engineering entrance rank list was prepared by giving equal weightage to entrance score and marks candidates obtained in their qualifying exam.
In the architecture stream, 2,816 candidates figured in the rank list; 69 girls and 29boys secured the first 100 ranks.
The rank list was prepared based on the entrance and National Aptitude Test in Architecture scores of the candidates.
As many as 4,556 candidates figured in the pharmacy rank list prepared based on the score of candidates in physics/chemistry tests in the engineering entrance examination. Boys secured 55 of the first 100 ranks in pharmacy.
