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EAMCET 2012 : Government for release of ranks, marks together

Five students were booked for malpractice during Eamcet examination in Kurnool — they reportedly appeared for the exam with fake hall tickets. Another student was caught with a cellphone inside the exam centre at Kadapa. Both incidents took place during the engineering exam in the morning session. This year saw a record attendance for Eamcet: the exam in engineering stream saw 96.44 per cent attendance, while it was 95.18 per cent in medical stream.

No cases of malpractice were reported for the medical stream exam. Eamcet, incidentally, has raised security levels, including installation of jammers at medical examination centres, after new techniques of copying came to light in 2010. Significantly, while officials had till date said Eamcet marks would be released on May 24 and ranks would be announced after the announcement of Inter advanced supplementary exam results, Prof. Rao on Saturday said the date is yet to be decided. “There is no decision yet whether to announce marks and ranks separately, or do it simultaneously,” he said, adding, “We will follow the government’s directions.”

The government is learnt to be in favour of announcing marks and ranks simultaneously on June 1, instead of releasing marks on May 24 and the ranks later. Meanwhile, some students expressed disappointment over Saturday’s exam, saying the question papers were lengthy and they had to leave some questions unanswered due to insufficient time. Senior professors said Chemistry would be the deciding factor for success in medical stream and Physics in the engineering stream.

There was no problem with the ‘one minute late norm’ in engineering stream this year, though there were reports of nearly 20 students missing the medical exam for having reached the centre after the cutoff time.