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Monday, March 14, 2011

Few takers for tech entrance exams


The usual enthuiasm for engineering entrance exams appears to e missing this year in the tate. Be it national-level ompetitive exams like IIT EE and AIEEE or state evel Eamcet, the response has been poor.

Anticipating huge demand, Eamcet officials had placed an order for 4.5 lakh application forms but sold less than 2 lakh forms as against 4 lakh last year. Only 1.5 lakh students have submitted the forms.

Nearly 45,000 from AP have applied to IIT-Madras

zone this year, which is an increase of 4 per cent over last year, as compared to the growth rate of over 10 per cent for the last five years.

The applicants for AIEEE2011 reduced this year over the last year. In the state, the number of applicants came down from 1.05 lakh last year to 95,000 this year.

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