JNTU RESULTS |
- All five toppers from AP want to join IIT-Bombay.
- Andhra Pradesh hits jackpot in IIT-JEE.
- Panel admits to 3 errors.
- IIT results show success of quota.
- IITs are a passion for Andhra Pradesh students.
| All five toppers from AP want to join IIT-Bombay. Posted: 25 May 2011 09:36 PM PDT All five toppers from AP want to join IIT-Bombay. HYDERABAD: The IIT toppers from Andhra Pradesh are an unusual bunch. Contrary to the stereotypical image of students burning the midnight oil to make it big in the IIT entrance, the AP boys spoke of their love for all things forbidden Telugu films, IPL matches and outdoor sports. The five rank holders from the state do not have stories of spending long hours, devouring books and making personal sacrifices to get the top scores. “Perhaps they want to strike a contrary note. I can’t believe that they did not study long hours,” said a parent of an IIT hopeful. In fact, the toppers insisted, that their secret was “keeping it cool” or so they said amidst celebrations by friends and family, not to mention the coaching centres that burst crackers and made them cut cakes. In fact, he thinks that the most prestigious tech college in the country IIT-Bombay is only a pit stop, a place to prepare for UPSC (civil services). He said that since his childhood, he had nursed only one ambition, to become an IAS officer. “I scored well because IIT was not the be-all and end-all of my life,” he said. Even a day before the examination, Tej was watching the IPL match. He is a student of Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Vijayawada. In fact, Tej had a matter-of-fact way of looking at even his success in JEE. Soon after the release of results, Tej went to the city’s passport office to submit his application for a passport to attend an international Olympiad in Thailand. The third rank holder, V Shaimak Reddy, a student from the city, stated that he liked both Tollywood and Hollywood flicks and watched movies even after joining Narayana Junior College, Dilsukhnagar. “Even if you spend 10 hours reading your books in a day, you might not crack IIT. But if you relax and take your examination with a confident cool mind you have a better chance of cracking it,” he said, adding that other social activities are important to keep oneself at peace. The fourth rank holder, B Saikiran from Narayana Junior College, stated that he was only an average scorer till class X. “I had done my schooling from my hometown in Nalgonda and scored 91% in SSC, which was not good enough. I did not lose heart and prepared well for the IIT entrance and HSC, where I scored 97%,” he said. What all the rank holders have in common is an interest in sports and a liking for healthy living. “I used to play badminton with my mother and then continued to do so to stay fit. It is a matter of personal discipline and it had helped improve my concentration,” said T Bhargava Reddy, the eighth rank holder. J Varun, the ninth rank holder, stated that he was more interested in medical field than engineering. “But later I started liking Maths and then decided to try for IIT admissions,” Varun said. All the five rank holders plan to take admissions in IIT-Bombay. Source : TOI |
| Andhra Pradesh hits jackpot in IIT-JEE. Posted: 25 May 2011 09:32 PM PDT Andhra Pradesh hits jackpot in IIT-JEE. HYDERABAD: The state’s craze for IIT education hit a crescendo for the second successive year when AP students bagged top honours in the IIT-JEE results. Andhra Pradesh hit a jackpot on Wednesday, bagging five of the top ten ranks in the entrance examination. In 2010, the state had bagged seven of the top 10 ranks. I Prudhvi Tej from West Godavari district scored the first rank in the examination. Other rank holders from the state include V Shaimak Reddy (3rd), B Saikiran (4th), T Bhargava Reddy (8th) and J Varun (9th). The results of the reserved categories too had students from AP sitting pretty on the first ranks. Rama Krishna Banoth was the top ranker in the ST category and J Varun was the topper in the OBC category. A jubilant Prudhvi Tej said he stuck to his study schedule, skipped the state engineering entrance and aimed only at a good rank in IIT. A film buff, Tej said he was looking forward to doing his electrical engineering from IIT-Bombay. “I was sure I would get a good rank in IIT,” he said. The results created much frenzy among the coaching centres in the city, which held various events to felicitate the toppers from their institutions. Officials overseeing the examination said that AP bagged over 15 ranks in the top 100 in the general category section. The south zone, comprising all four southern states, secured 30 of the top 100 ranks. In reserved categories, AP bagged 35 ranks in top 100. IIT-JEE experts said that students from the state perform well in the examination as they grasp the basic format of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) question paper. “In the entrance test, several concepts are mixed to form a question. There are no straight forward questions in JEE and the IIT trainers from AP have understood the idea better than those in other states,” said Prof T S Natarajan from IIT-Madras, who is also chairman of JEE South Zone Committee. Others attributed the rich harvest of ranks to AP’s IIT focus over the last three decades. “We as a state are so clued in to IIT preparations that even the state government recently changed the Intermediate syllabus to suit the interests of JEE takers. Students feel that landing a seat in IIT is the ultimate goal,” said D V Rao, vice-chairman, Narayana group of institutions. He explained that the state is the only place where IIT syllabus is taught right from Class VI. Explaining the 2011 success, JEE teachers said that this year, too, it was the Mathematics paper that helped students climb the rank ladder. AP students are traditionally good at Mathematics and score higher than their compatriots from other states. “Like last year, the mathematics paper was tough in JEE-2011. This could have worked in favour of the students from the state many of whom have scored well in the subject. The saying is if Chemistry is tough, students from other states score well and if the Math paper is tough we score better,” explained an IIT expert. However, the faculty of IIT coaching institutes are still unimpressed with the state’s performance. They said that more students from AP would have bagged top ranks had the JEE paper-setters avoided question paper errors. “The state could have scored at least two more ranks had there not been errors in the paper. There were two students who missed it by three to four marks,” said a faculty member. Source : TOI |
| Posted: 25 May 2011 09:30 PM PDT May 25: The Eamcet committee on Wednesday admitted that there were two errors in the Eamcet question papers apart from the one question which has two options as correct answer. It has decided to delete both the erroneous questions that had crept in the physics section of engineering and medical stream question papers. While the total marks for engineering and medical stream question papers were 150 each, the evaluation will now be done for 149 marks each following the deletion of one question in each paper. The deleted question number in the engineering stream was 85 in Code-A, 98 in B, 116 in C and 89 in D. The deleted question number in medical stream was 100 in Code-A, 91 in B, 105 in C and 82 in D. A question in zoology section in the medical stream paper has been found to have two options as the correct answer. The question number is 71 in Code-A, 57 in B, 62 in C and 51 in D. The committee on Wednesday released the 'initial key' admitting two errors. It has sought the feedback from students, teachers and other stakeholders over the initial key. "The initial key has been posted on the Eamcet website. We request all to examine the initial key and send objection, if any, by June 2. We will look into the objections and release the final key along with Eamcet results in the second week of June," said Dr Ramana Rao, convenor, Eamcet. Source : DC |
| IIT results show success of quota. Posted: 25 May 2011 09:28 PM PDT IIT results show success of quota. HYDERABAD: A new trend has surfaced in the IIT results this year. A large number of SC, ST and OBC students have made it to the open category list, securing some of the top ranks this year. Karimnagar boy J Varun, for instance, who bagged the ninth rank in the open category, secured the first rank in the OBC category. He said he would take admission in IIT-Bombay in the open category as he has earned it. Another student Rama Krishna Banoth, who scored first rank in the ST category, has secured 133rd rank in the open category. This year, the trend is not limited to a few, say IIT officials. “In JEE-2011 the performance of SC students is brilliant. This year, the SC seat list will be completely occupied, as against the previous years. And now many of the general category ranks are occupied by these students,” said T S Natarajan, chairman, JEE South Zone Committee. IIT officials said that at least 10-15% of the students from the reservation categories have made it to the general category too. IIT experts from the city said that, even in the previous years some students from SC and OBC categories made it to the general category, but the figures this year are mind-boggling, they said. “In reserved category list, the state has secured about 35 ranks. And most of the rank-holders have secured ranks ranging from 9 to 250 in general category. This would mean that more number of students from these communities are making their way into what was once reserved only for OC students,” said Chukka Ramaiah, who has been training students from these communities for the last many years. Welcoming the trend, P M Bhargava, former vice-chairman, National Knowledge Commission said that this indicates the success of the reservation policy adopted by the government. “The idea behind reservation is to make socially and economically backward communities get access to education and other facilities which were once monopolised by the privileged classes and castes. After generations of reservation benefiting people, now emerges a new generation of Dalits and BCs who do not need reservations as they have become very much a part of what is called the “merit” list,” he said. According to IIT officials, in the past five years, there has been a momentous growth in the number of students from these communities making it to IITs. “A new social change is under way and IITs welcome that,” said Natarajan. Source : TOI |
| IITs are a passion for Andhra Pradesh students. Posted: 25 May 2011 09:05 PM PDT IITs are a passion for Andhra Pradesh students. HYDERABAD: Coaches for IIT entrance tests estimate that Andhra Pradesh accounts for 12.5% of the total students studying at IITs across the country. Last year, 56,000 students appeared for IIT entrance, a number which shot to 60,000 this year. The state’s engineering entrance, Eamcet, too has seen a rise in the number of students appearing for it, from a few thousands a couple of decades ago to a few lakhs now. This year, nearly 2.7 lakh students appeared for Eamcet. So, are students of Andhra Pradesh technology-driven and hence, wish to become engineers or is engineering a fad that refuses to die? Observers state the obvious be it an engineering degree from an IIT or a state engineering college, the students only see it as a stepping stone to realise their big dream, either to migrate to the US or make it to the civil services, their next most crucial ambition. The 2011 all-India topper in the IIT entrance, I Prudhvi Tej on Wednesday said he aspired to become an IAS officer. The exodus of engineering grads from AP to the US has led to the almost familiar statements about how of every four households in AP, one would have a son or a daughter in the US. K V Raghunath, vice-chairman of Narayana Group of Institutions, says than an engineering degree makes it easy for students to go abroad. D N Reddy, vice-chancellor of JNTU, says that engineering is just a craze among the students. “Students in AP have increasingly taken to engineering because of the job opportunities or because of peer/parental pressure,” he says. Reddy’s analysis is bang on. The passion for IITs, which is almost three decades old, is largely rooted in the coastal belt of the state when land-rich parents started planning non-agricultural careers for their children, getting them coaching to make it to the prestigious institutions of the country. What started in the early 80s in one pocket of the state as a craze for a new career, spread across AP over the years. In the last one decade, Hyderabad has become a coaching hub with students pouring in from across the state for “branded” education to crack the coveted IIT entrance. Realising the IIT passion, the state government even tweaked the school syllabus, making it IIT-friendly. The craze for Eamcet is only second to that of IIT. There are so many engineering seats in the state, of the 2.7 lakh students who appeared for Eamcet this year, each is assured to get a seat. What has changed over the years is not the fascination for engineering but the choice of institutions. With eyes firmly set on IITs, many students now skip appearing for the state entrance test. For instance, this year, none of the five top rank-holders from the state had appeared for Eamcet. Source : TOI |
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