HYDERABAD: Over 95% candidates cleared Telangana Engineering Common Entrance Test (Ecet), results of which were declared on Wednesday.
Though 23,667 candidates appeared for the exam on August 4, 22,522 candidates qualified in the test. Girls managed to put up a better show than boys as 95.93% of them qualified against 94.85% boys.
Last year, only 63% boys had qualified in the examination. However, this year, the performance of boys improved as above 94% qualified in ECET, which was conducted in 18 test zones with 41 test centres in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Enugurthi Supraja from Karimnagar secured the state first rank in computer science engineering stream, while Sunkari Shivakumar Goud from Rangareddy topped the chemical engineering stream and Boddu Abhigna from Nizamabad emerged topper in electronics and communication.
Panasa Sai Kumar from Peddapalli secured top rank in civil engineering, Dadannagari Anurag Rao from Nizamabad in electrical and electronics engineering, Thokala Nehasri from Jagtial in electronics and instrumentation engineering , Shaik Azeem Ahmed from Bhadadri Kothagudem in mechanical engineering, Kasina Teja from Khammam in metallurgy and Veeranki Sharan from Peddapalli in mining engineering.
B Beemeshwari from Wanaparthy and Mehraj Baig from Mancherial were declared as the toppers in pharmacy and BSc mathematics respectively.
As per the admission schedule declared by Telangana State Council of Higher Education for lateral entry into BE/BTech or pharmacy courses, candidates would have to submit their online applications from August 24-28, certificate verification will be held from August 26-28 and exercise web options from August 26-31. Provisional allotment of seats would be made on September 2.
