VISAKHAPATNAM: Boys cornered the glory by bagging all the top 10 ranks in the Integrated Common Entrance Test ( ICET-2011), the results of which were declared here on Thursday. However, girls took a slight edge over boys with a pass percentage of 90.59, which was more than the boys' percentage of 89.98.

 

our students from Hyderabad and two from the port city of Visakhapatnam figured in the top 10 while two girls K Lavanya of Vijayawada (11th rank with 179 marks) and P Navya of Kakinada (19th rank with 172 marks) managed to be in the top 20. Padda Pradeep Reddy of Hyderabad walked away with the top rank by scoring 185 marks out of 200, while Aditya Kiran Nori of Hyderabad and Pillutla Anurudha Asish of Guntur got the second and third ranks by scoring 185 and 183 marks respectively.

The others in the top ten were Jinka Pandu Ranga Nayak Yadav (181) of Hyderabad, Areef Ali Shaik (181) of Srikakulam, M V S S Sharma (181) of Vizag, C N A Chandra (181) of West Godavari, M Jaya Simha (180) of Hyderabad, Suhel Ahmed Khaday Y Syed (180) of Bangalore and P Rahul (180) of Vizag. The results were released here on Thursday by Andhra University vice-chancellor Prof B Satyanarayana.

A total of 1,40,210 students appeared for the test and 1,26,454 qualified for the exam registering a pass percentage of 90.19. In the minority category, 11,762 Muslim candidates qualified for the examination among them 3,563 were female candidates. In the Christian category 2,518 students passed the test, of which 1,047 were women.