HYDERABAD: Barring stray incidents of students carrying cell phones and nine students turning up late, the EAMCET -2011 went off peacefully in all 668 centres in the state on Sunday.At least 96.76 per cent attendance (2,70,022) was reported for the engineering stream, with 9,073 candidates absent out of a total of 2,79,095 candidates. For the medical stream, 65,772 candidates sat for the exam while 2,858 students were absent. Nine students who had applied for both engineering and medicine streams could not attend the test as EAMCET officials did not allow them into the exam hall for coming late. Two students came late to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU-H) test centre for medicine stream while four students from Tirupati and three students in Visakhapatnam could not sit for the entrance exams as officials barred them from entering the hall.Most students, who appeared for the EAMCET said the questions were tough compared to the previous year. “The test was tough in engineering as there were more number of analytical questions. Nearly 17 questions were analytical while the chemistry paper had about 15 difficult questions,” said B Narayana, a student at the JNTU-H centre. EAMCET convener NV Ramana Rao said around 96.76 per cent candidates appeared for the engineering stream out of around 3 lakh candidates. He added there were no reports of any mistakes in the question papers. “The exam key would be released after members of the expert committee go through the papers, with the initial key likely to be released before May 25. The final key and results will be released on June 10,” said the convener. Meanwhile, students wrote their exam amidst jammers installed in the exam centres to prevent malpractice. They were allowed into the hall only after thorough screening by bio-metric machines and manual frisking. Ramana Rao said they had booked cases on two students, Ch Balraj at Hyderabad and Syed Sarika banu at Kurnool for malpractice. Another two were caught with mobile phones while writing the test at the JNTU-H and Kadapa centres. “For the first time, all candidates were scanned by the bio-metric machines. We had set up 40 bio-metric systems and 20 jammers in sensitive examination centres. The bio-metric system helped to ascertaining the identity of candidates and it will also be used in matching identity of those who participate in counselling,” Ramana Rao added. Heavy police force was deployed and Section 144 section clamped in and around exam centres as a precautionary measure.
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