Tuesday, Jun 08, 2010
18 of the top 20 in engineering, medicine from Karnataka


Bangalore: In an interesting trend, no less than 90 per cent of the top 100 engineering ranks and 61 per cent of top 100 medical ranks in the Under Graduate Entrance Test (2010) were bagged by students from Karnataka. This, in an examination where students from the State account for only 25 per cent of the total number of applicants.

The final rank list for the UGET 2010, the qualifying examination for admissions to private professional colleges across the State, was published here on Monday. While 12,263 medical ranks were announced, 42,000 engineering ranks were published.
In a first, Kavya Sharat has emerged as the top ranker for both the engineering and medical streams. Kavya Sharat is a student of MES PU College of Arts, Commerce and Science in Bangalore.

All the students in the engineering top 10 rank list and eight of the 10 top rankers in the medical list are from Karnataka.

Kavya, who was in Hyderabad when she spoke to The Hindu, said she was elated. Her rank in CET was 37 (for engineering), so naturally she was quite excited to hear she had topped both the streams.

Sunil N., who finished second in the engineering entrance and third in the medical entrance, also finished second in medicine and fourth in engineering in the CET. He said that he too wishes to get into Electronics and Communications Engineering in R.V. College. He too is a student of MES PU College of Arts, Science and Commerce, and went for coaching to crack these entrance examinations. Shanbagh Anil Atmanand, who came first in the CET entrance, found himself ranked third on the COMED-K list. However, he said that he “did not bother” to check his result as he looks forward to joining IIT Powai (Mumbai) and wrote both the CET and the COMED-K as a back-up.

Yogesh Mahesh Lalmalini, who ranked second in medicine, said that he hoped to get in to the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute.
Executive Secretary of COMED-K S. Kumar said that they had the maximum number of “ties” this year. This refers to the fact that many students got similar scores, and other parameters such as individual section marks and then number of questions they answered wrong had to be used to sort these “tied” scores.

“That is bound to happen when around 60,000 students are given ranks based on a test of 180 marks. This is reflective of intense competition this year, and the examination too was tougher (in terms of difficulty levels) this year,” he said.