Hyderabad: The TS Eamcet proved to be a tough nut to crack for girl students this year. No girl figured in top-10 rankers in the engineering test this year. However, there was some respite in the second test. Three girls made it to the agriculture top-10.
N. Manvitha from Proddutur, Kadapa, secured the fifth rank with 150 out of 160 marks. D. Mansi Dinesh from Lower Tank Bund secured eighth rank while Nizamabad native Y. Alekhya took the tenth rank. Mansi Dinesh’s aim is to do M.B.B.S in AIIMS, New Delhi.
The eighth ranker is confident of a good rank in NEET. She’s also seriously preparing for AIIMS and JIPMER entrances scheduled in the coming days. Mansi, however, did not write the AP Eamcet exam.
She will be the first girl from her family to pursue medicine as a majority of her cousins are in the engineering stream. Her father D. Dinesh Gurunath is a bank employee while mother is a homemaker.
Y. Alekhya, the tenth ranker, is daughter of an assistant professor Y.Venu Prasad, who is with the Girraj autonomous degree college in Nizamabad. She got the tenth rank in TS Eamcet and 26th rank in AP Eamcet.
Alekhya studied Intermediate in the residential campus of a corporate college in Hyderabad. Venu Prasad said her daughter was a brilliant student right from her childhood.
“I enrolled her in a school in Hyderabad from 8th Standard onwards. She did her Intermediate study in a corporate college in Hyderabad,” he said.
Meanwhile, Eamcet co-convener Manzoor Hussain stated that though girls’ presence was less in the top-10, they are very much there, and the number of qualified girls was an indication.
In fact, in agriculture test, the number of qualified girls was higher. Out of the 63,570 students who qualified, 43,361 were girls, while the boys’ number was 20,209.
However, the number of boys who wrote this test was only 23,922. In engineering test, nearly 40,000 girls qualified out of the total 98,596 that made the cut.
