AP students get top AIEEE ranks

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Continuing their impressive performance in national level entrance exams, five state students featured in the top 20 list of the B.Tech stream in the open category in AIEEE-2012. Several students from the state have got top ranks in reservation categories too.

AP students bagged the 4th, 10th, 12th, 16th and 20th ranks at the national-level in the open category in B.Tech. However, only two AP students figured in the top-10 list this year while there were three last year.

Students from Sri Chaitanya and Narayana Groups, who took coaching in their Delhi branches, created a record by securing national first and second ranks respectively. Sandeep Pathry from Sri Chaitanya secured the first rank by scoring 346 marks out of 360 and Ananth Guptha from Narayana bagged the second rank in B.Tech in the open category.

4 lakh cross cut-off mark
The AIEEE toppers from AP in the B.Tech open category were Sai Akhil (4th rank, Bhashyam), Chinta Nitish Chandra (10th rank, Sri Chaitanya), Sri Krishna (12th rank, Narayana), G. Ashish (16th rank, Narayana) and Nunna Satya Mounika (20th rank, Sri Chaitanya).

“In the B.Tech open category, our students secured 12 ranks in the first 100. Our students bagged 29 ranks in the first 100 in the B.Arch open category. Our ICON and NEON programmes have enabled students to achieve top ranks in IIT-JEE and AIEEE,” said Ms Sushma, academic director, Sri Chaitanya.

The results were posted on the CBSE website. Chairman of Narayana Group Dr P. Narayana said, “Our students have secured five ranks in the top-10 and 40 ranks below-100 in the open category. As many as 720 students from our institutions across the country have figured in top-100 lists in all the categories put together.”

Narayana student Inam-pudi Chaitanya topped the country in B.Arch open category, while Narayana’s Y. Kiran got the first rank in the SC category in the B.Tech stream. B. Akhil Naik got the second rank in the ST category in B.Arch and S. Bharadwaz got second rank in open category in B.Arch. Among Sri Chaitanya students, Gubba Mani-ratna got the fifth rank, Mandava Srinath seventh, A.M. Satya Prakash eighth and N. Hari Prasad got the ninth rank in B.Arch.

Sri Gayatri students secured ranks 12, 15, 16, 21, 23, 25, 31, 37 and 45 in various categories and Dr K.K.R. Gowtham’s students secured 241 ranks in B.Tech and 236 in B.Arch. The AIEEE determines admission for 26,000 seats at NITs, IIITs, deemed universities and Centrally-funded technical institutions.

“The performance is around the same as last year. OC candidates who secured 48 marks, OBCs with 45 marks, SC/ST and PHC candidates with 18 marks were declared eligible for online counselling,” said CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi. Of 11 lakh candidates who wrote the exam, 4.1 lakh crossed the cut-off mark of 48. Students can log on to www.ccb.nic.in [2] for details on seat availability.