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  • No surprises in ICET-2011.

    HYDERABAD: The ICET-2011 exam, held at 276 centres in the state held no surprises. The examination conducted by Andhra University on Wednesday, followed a pattern similar to that of the previous year. Icet is the qualifying examination for admissions into MBA and MCA colleges in the state.

    Candidates said the Communicative English section (50 marks) was tough and time consuming and the analytical and logical reasoning parts had questions similar to the ones that had appeared in previous examinations.

    A total of 1.5 lakh students had applied for the examination out of which 1.4 lakh appeared. Rohit Tripathy, from David Memorial College, Tarnaka said questions under coding and decoding, odd man out and series completion sections were easier than last year.

    Manoj Sethi, Icet coordinator, TIME coaching centre said the question paper had no ambiguous questions this time. “After the preliminary analysis, no errors were found in the question paper. However, we need to wait for the initial key to come out to find out if there are any errors,” said Sethi.

    Icet authorities said that the initial answer key will be released by May 22 and final key by May 27.

    Source : TOI

  • Several city students scale ICSE summit.

    Several city students have scored more than 90 per cent in the ICSE Class X and ISC Class XII exams. The results were announced on Tuesday. While the pass percentage from AP stood at 99.27 for Class X, it was 93.17 per cent for Class XII students. Girls have once again done better than boys by recording a pass percentage of 99.78 in Class X and 96.23 per cent in Class XII respectively. It was 98.78 per cent and 89.76 per cent respectively for the boys.

    Abhinav Baid, a student of Secunderabad-based Gitanjali Devshala, secured 680 marks of 700 and Surya Teja of the same school secured 677 in the Class X exams. Varsha of Gitanjali School, Begumpet, too scored 677. Kunal Chandekar of Gitanjali got 99 per cent marks in ICSE (best of five) and Niraj School’s Prateek Manodhanya secured 97.2 (best of five). In ISC Class XII commerce stream, Ridhima Gupta of Nasr School, Khairatabad, secured 97.3 per cent and Nandini of Gitanjali School, secured 96.2 per cent. Nalini Kotari of St Ann’s scored 96 per cent. From AP, a total of 5,745 students from 83 schools had given ICSE exams and 703 students from 16 schools had appeared for ISC exams.

    Source : DC

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