City students top EAMCET

Updated on: Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Hyderabad: City students stole the show in the Eamcet2009 results that were announced on Monday.

Three out of the top five in the engineering stream and the top five scorers in the medical stream were from the city.

Gannavarapu Gopalakrishna Murthy of Visakhapatnam region along with C. Shivakumar and Shaik Allauddin of Hyderabad region, scored 153 marks out of 160, while the fourth and fifth top scorers are Bonthala Shravan of Karimnagar and Lankapalli Santosh Kumar of Hyderabad who scored 152 and 150 marks respectively.

Gopalakrishna Murthy is sure to get the first rank as he scored 600 out of 600 in the optional subjects in Intermediate. Similar is the case of Shaik Allauddin, both belonging to Narayana institutions.

In the medical stream, top scorers are Kota Keerthana, Santosh Swaminathan and Nalla Raveena, who all scored 149 marks each and belong to Sri Chaitanya while the next two positions were taken by N. Ramakrishna and Golkonda Bala Aditya who secured 147 each.

Technical Education Minister M. V. Ramana Rao, who released the results, said the final rankings would be given on June 22 after results of supplementary examinations are released.

The schedule for web-based counselling and procedure to be adopted by the candidates will also be announced later.

With a pass percentage of 96.3 in the medical stream, 60,351 students passed the test out of the 62,656 candidates.

Out of the 3,02,646 who appeared for the exam, around 2,72,086 candidates cleared the engineering examination registering 86.9 per cent pass.

Kalvimalar

City students top EAMCET

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