TN girl is GATE biotech topper

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Chennai:
A final year B.Tech student of the SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Deepa Rajagopalan, has bagged the all India first rank in biotechnology in GATE this year.
The res­ults were released Fri­day morning by  the Indian Institute of Tech­nology (IIT), Bombay, which coordinated GATE.
With a score of 80, Deepa has emerged first amongst the 16,159 candidates who appeared for GATE-2013 in the biotechnology str­eam. “Although I’ve been preparing for the past three years, I put in a lot more effort  from Dece­mber last year and my two internships at the Indian Institute of Scie­nce (IISc), Bengaluru and University of Michi­g­an, too helped me in writing GATE,” said an elated Deepa.

AP students ace tech aptitude test

Hyderabad: Students from Andhra Pradesh have outdone their peers in other states in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2013) results announced on Friday.

AP had the most number of students declared qualified at 22,746. The second place went to Uttar Pradesh (22,400), followed by Mahar-ashtra (9,951), Bihar (9,820) and Kerala (8,992).

Pune student Rohit Ronge, who took the exam from Hyderabad, secured All-India First Rank in Instrumentation Engineering.

AP student Chakradhar Reddy secured sixth rank in the Electrical Engine-ering while Parth Lathigara, also from AP, secured 10th rank in the Electro-nics and Communication Engineering stream.

Out of the 9,84,855 candidates who took the exam 1,36,699 have qualified which is 13.88 per cent.

Among the candidates who qualified, 72,125 belong to General category, 41,237 to OBC-NC, 18,936 to SC, and 4,401 to ST category. There were 1,136 physically challenged candidates who qualified in various categories.

The online exam for 2,02,223 candidates, in 15 papers, was conducted in 572 centres spread over 123 cities across the country, on January 20. The offline exam for 9,98,505 candidates in the remaining six papers was conducted in 992 centres in 183 cities and towns on February 10.

“Aspirants in Civil Engineering increased substantially this year to 67,472 from 36,000-odd last year,” said Aditya Reddy of GATE Forum, a popular coaching institute.
source: http://www.DeccanChronicle.com /  Home> News> Current Affairs / DC / by N. Arun Kumar / March 16th, 2013