AP tops in GATE results

AP tops in GATE results
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Andhra Pradesh students have come out in flying colours in the GATE-2013 results which were officially declared on Friday morning. Though more...

rank2 rank3Andhra Pradesh students have come out in flying colours in the GATE-2013 results which were officially declared on Friday morning. Though more than 12 lakh students have registered for the exam, only 9.85 lakh candidates have appeared for it. A total of 1,36, 699 students �i.e. just 13.88 percent- have qualified the highly complex exam. As far as AP is concerned, a total of 16,476 have qualified i.e. 16% of the total appeared for the exam. This is the third consecutive year that AP students have proved their dominance in the key all-India tech exam. State students, particularly from the ACE Engineering Academy, fared well by bagging top honours in many disciplines including ECE, EEE, ME, Civil and IN (Instrumentation Engineering). While Sujit Kumar stood at top in ECE, Rohit P Ronge got first rank in IN. Navysri got sixth rank in Civil engineering while Surya Deepak secured 14th rank in the same discipline. Chakradhar Reddy secured sixth rank in EEE. ACE Academy claims that seven out of the top ten in ECE were their students. "In EEE, we got three ranks in top ten. Similarly, our student got fourth rank in computer science, two candidates stood in top ten in IN discipline. I can say with emphasis that fifty percent of ACE students will get into M Tech in all disciplines in all the IITs and NITs" Dr Gopala Krishna Murthy, Director of the academy told The Hans India. GATEFORUM, an institute run by IITand IIM alumni, has also claimed that some of its candidates shared top honours. "Bibaswan Kumar Chatterjee, Shimul Kumar Dam, Vinod Datusliya have bagged first ranks at all India level in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Even Rohit Ronge, Teeneti Chakradhar Reddy were our products" Aditya Reddy, Director of GATE FORUM told The Hans India.
60% boys cleared the GATE
In the all-India results, 60.25 percent of male qualified where as 39.75% women candidate got qualifying marks. GATE was conducted in both offline and online modes. The computer based online exam for 2,02,223 candidates in fifteen papers was conducted in 572 centers spread over 123 cities and towns across the country on January 20 The offline exam for 9,98,505 candidates in the remaining six papers was conducted in 992 centres spread over 183 cities and towns across the country on February 10. According to IIT Bombay, which conducted the test on behalf of the seven older IITs, nearly 81% of the total number of candidates were from four papers: Electronics and Communication Engineering (2,56,135), Computer Science and Information Technology (2,24,160), Mechanical Engineering (1,65,814) and Electrical Engineering (1,52,381). If we go by the statistics of categories among the total qualifiers, 72,125 belong to General, 41,237 to OBCs, 18,936 to SC, and 4,401 to ST category. Physically challenged candidates comprise a total of 1,136 among the qualified in various categories. It may be recalled that GATE 2013 is significant in one aspect i.e, for the first time, as many as fifteen Public Sector Units have signed an MoU with IIT Bombay to receive the official GATE 2013 results across various papers for employment screening purposes. This also indicates the decreasing craze for IT jobs and boost for PSUs. rank4
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