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Even after a Zero, you still can get professional admission in AP- 9-Jul-2012
Hyderabad: Although they may have handed over blank papers but they still qualify for admission into professional degree courses in Andhra Pradesh. Unbelievable but true, say officials.
Twenty-two of 78 students who scored zero in the entrance test this year will get admission in engineering and agriculture courses as they belong to Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities.
According to officials in the education department, despite scoring zero in EAMCET (Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test), these students have qualified as they got the minimum 40 percent marks in the qualifying XII exam.
Among them, nine students will get admission into engineering colleges, 13 can pursue other courses except MBBS. Until 2008, getting a seat in MBBS was possible after which the Medical Council of India (MCI) tightened the norms.
The Dalit/tribal students who qualified despite scoring zero in the medical stream in EAMCET can get admissions into agriculture, veterinary and horticulture courses.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, conducts EAMCET every year for admission into engineering, medical, dental and agriculture courses both in government and private colleges in the state. The results of EAMCET 2012 were announced last week.
Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan, who is the chancellor of all universities in the state, is unhappy over the state of affairs.
Addressing JNTU Hyderabad convocation in May, he disapproved of the trend of giving admissions to students who don't score a single mark in EAMCET.
"There should be some minimum qualifying marks. What do you expect of such students, who score zero, to do in classrooms? Do you want to develop an inferiority complex among such students?" he asked.
Last year, 26 out of 73 students who got zero marks in EAMCET were declared qualified. Of them, 17 got admissions into engineering and nine in agriculture/veterinary colleges.
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