After seeing a dip last year, the number of girl students in the engineering stream of EAMCET is likely to increase this year going by the present trend of applications.
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So far, 68,674 girl students have applied for the engineering stream while the boys' applications have crossed one lakh. Last year, 98, 718 girls appeared for the test while in 2010 about 1.15 lakh girls took the engineering test. With the last date of submission of applications ending on March 30, officials expect that the number of girl students is likely to cross the last year's figures going by the present trend.
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“The number has been increasing since the last two days as students are free with the Intermediate examinations completed,” said the EAMCET-2012 convenor, N.V. Ramana Rao. The number of aspirants in EAMCET is expected to increase massively this year as the number of candidates taking the Intermediate examinations has also risen. This year, 4,74,484 candidates have registered for Intermediate examinations in the MPC stream, which is an increase by over 50,000 students.
Last year, 4,22,875 candidates appeared for the Intermediate exam of which 2,78,974 candidates took the engineering test. Prof. Ramana Rao says the number of girl students has also seen an upswing in Intermediate MPC stream thus indicating that more girl students are likely to take the engineering test. If the easy availability of seats is a factor forcing girl students to take up engineering, the changing mindset of parents is contributing to it too. The performance of girl students in the engineering course is another positive aspect. This year 1.78 lakh students have applied for Intermediate exams from the BiPC stream as against 1,31,102 last year, an increase of around 46,000.
