Hyderabad students bagged top ranks in both medical and engineering streams in Eamcet-2012, results of which were announced on 29
th June. Vijay Ketan Reddy secured the first rank in medical stream, a resident of Dilsukhnagar and in engineering stream the top rank was bagged by Chinta Nitish Chandra, a resident of Madhapur. Unlike the results in 2011 when most of the top ranks were bagged by girl students, this year in both the streams just 2 girl students each secured top ranks. The students can check their results on the
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Out of a total of 2.83 lakh students who wrote the engineering branch of the examination about 2.07 lakh had secured ranks. Out of a total of 90,917 students who sit for the medical examination just about 77,800 students secured ranks.
Counseling for admissions to engineering colleges is expected to begin in the 3rd week of July and classes are expected to start by the end of August. Since about 2.34 lakh seats are available in engineering colleges in the state each of the students who secured rank in Eamcet will get a seat for sure. On top of this, another 13,844 students who qualified in Eamcet engineering have failed in the Intermediate exams and thus become ineligible for BE/B.Tech. Thus, there are only 1,93,629 students available for 2.34 lakh seats.
Another 15,000 seats are expected to be added by AICTE before the Eamcet counseling begins in the third week of July.
However, in MBBS with just about 4,500 seats available for 77,800 students the competition will be tough, officials said.
The toppers said that they had bagged the best ranks as they had spent 18 hours a day preparing for the exam. Medicine topper Vijay Ketan said he decided to opt for Medical stream against his father's wish and hence he had to prove his mettle. Ketan's father, Raghuveer Reddy is an ophthalmologist who runs a private clinic in the city.
"My father did not want me to become a doctor as my elder sister had opted for the same profession. My parents wanted me to be an engineer but my interest was in medical sciences and I followed my dream,"
Vijay Ketan, topper of EAMCET Medical Stream
Vijay Ketan is planning to join Gandhi Medical College. The topper in engineering, Chinta Nitish Chandra said his interest’s is in computer engineering.
"I have still not decided which college to choose from as I have cleared national entrance examinations as well."
Nitish Chandra, topper of EAMCET Engineering Stream
Interestingly, a majority of the rank holders in engineering stream might not take admissions in state's engineering institutes and they would opt for IITs or IIITs. Region wise and category wise ranks will be provided to enable students to know their position in the region's rank list this year. Damodar Raja Narasimha, minister for higher and technical education released the results here on Friday. With Eamcet going online this year officials had saved much time, said M V Ramana Rao, convener, Eamcet.