CET counseling commences from June 2

CET counseling commences from June 2

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 23: The CET results were announced on Saturday.  A total of 71,855 students have bagged eligibility for medical and engineering seats through this year’s Common Entrance Test (CET), conducted by the Karnataka Examination Authority.  A total of 1,14,013 students answered their CET, out of which 5,783 have gained eligibility for admission to dental and medical courses and 44,468 for homeopathy and Indian System of Medicine (ISM) courses. 71,639 students have gained eligibility for admission to engineering and technology courses and 673 for architecture.


CET Topper

Shanbhag Anil Atmanand, the CET topper in engineering stream, celebrating his success in Bangalore on Saturday


The toppers in the engineering section were Shanbhag Anil Atmanand (95.94 pc) of VVS Sardar Patel PU College, Bangalore. The topper in the medical/dental category was Akshay B. Pattabhi (85.55 pc) of St. Aloysius College, Mangalore. Pattabhi also emerged as the topper of the Homeopathy and ISM category. Soujanya K. (79.66 pc) of National Hill View Public School of Bangalore was the topper in the category of architecture. 


Seat selection counseling will commence on June 2 for special categories and from June 10 for medical and dental courses.


Minister for Higher Education Aravind Limbavalli announced during a press conference that the KEA has sent the results via text message to all students who had provided their mobile numbers on the application forms. The scanned OMR sheets and evaluation reports have been uploaded on the KEA website; and students can download the reports from this site.


The minister also said that counseling will be available in Uttara Kannada and Belgaum from the next academic year. This year, counseling will be available at Bangalore, Gulbarga, Shimoga, Hubli, and Mangalore. He also announced a felicitation programme for the rank holders on June 10.


Medical Education Minister Ramachandra Gowda said that 50 more seats are now available at Mysore Medical College and Hubli Medical College, ensuring the accommodation of all the candidates.


Candidates, who results have been withheld owing to missing documents, can get their results after submitting the required documents to the KEA office from May 24. Discrepancies can be reported to the KEA office. In case of variation in II PU marks after revaluation, fresh ranks will be announced after finalizing the evaluation results.

 

Toppers speak: Engineering

 

Shanbhag Anil Atmanand

Rank 1 - 95.94 per cent

VVS Sardar Patel PU College, Bangalore

“Since I was preparing for IIT, the CET paper seemed a cake walk. My parents supported me to do my best, but they did not burden me. This helped me perform well in my examination.”

 

Giridhar G

Rank 2 - 94.83 per cent

Sadvidya Composite PU College, Mysore

“Although I found the CET paper to be easy, I felt Mathematics and Physics paper were lengthy. I am waiting for my IIT results to decide upon my course.”

 

Vageesh D C

Rank 3 - 94.66 per cent

KLE Society’s Independent PU College, Bangalore

“Mathematics paper was difficult since it was lengthy. During my free time, I love playing the violin and reading novels.”

 

Sunil N

Rank 4 - 94.44 per cent

MES PU College, Bangalore

“I prepared for CET from the beginning. Attending coaching classes helped a great deal to tackle the paper,” he said. He spends his leisure time playing cricket and swimming. Unlike others, Sunil is not keen on IIT and plans to study Electronics and Communications in RVCE. Sunil secured the second in Medical category.

 

Prajwal A N

Rank 5 - 93.78 per cent

Vidya Mandira PU College, Bangalore

“I found the entrance test to be easy. I am waiting for my IIT results to take my next step.” Music being his passion, he loves playing the violin.

 

Anshu Avinash

Rank 6 - 93.55 per cent

Kendriya Vidyalaya ASC Center(S), Bangalore

“I did not employ any special techniques to study but coming from a CBSE background and IIT coaching paid off,” he says. His father works in the Indian Air Force and mother is a homemaker. He spends his free time by reading novels.

 

Srinidhi K V

Rank 7 - 93.445 per cent

Sadvidya Composite PU College, Mysore

“I prepared for CET by solving previous years’ question papers. With the hope of getting through IIT Kanpur, I am waiting for my IIT results.

 

Deepak G

Rank 10 - 92.056 per cent

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore

“Integrated coaching classes helped me gain in depth understanding of basic concepts which helped me crack the CET,” he says. He enjoys quizzing, music and playing.

 

Toppers speak

 

Architecture
 

Soujanya K

Rank 1 - 79.66 per cent

National Hill View Public School, Bangalore

“I always focused on my board exam and I did not prepare exclusively for National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA), but I solved few question papers and concentrated on my drawing which helped me perform well in NATA. The time-limit for each question in NATA makes it difficult to complete the paper.”

 

H U Sachidanand

Rank 2:  78.65 per cent, St.Joseph College, Bangalore

“I refreshed my general knowledge and aptitude skills. The test was tougher than expected as new set of questions were included.”

 

Gavin Peter Britto

Rank 3: 78.5 per cent

Christ PU College, Bangalore

“I joined a course online conducted by VTU Lab which helped me become familiar with the pattern of the NATA paper and it seemed easy.”

 

Milan Mallinath

Rank 4:  78.417 per cent

Sadvidya PU Composite College, Mysore

“I attribute my success to my teacher Gowri Rajaram who trained me for the entrance test.”

He intends to study Architecture in RVCE.

 

Medical / Dental
 

Akshay B Pattabi

Rank 1: 85.56 per cent

St Aloysius PU College, Mangalore

Akshay has topped both the medical and homeopathy rank lists, but he says he started his preparations for CET only a month before the examination. Akshay wants to pursue a degree in BSc, Mathematics from IISER (Indian Institute of Science, Education and Resources in Trivandrum).

 

Shivaraj Prakash Patil

Rank 3 - 85 per cent

Expert PU Science College, Mangalore

Shivaraj has stood third in both Medical and Homeopathy rank lists. All India Pre-Medical Test and All India Medical Entrance examinations were his primary concern. He dutifully concentrated in his classes and revised the same at home.

 

Chiraag Mandal

Rank 4 - 85 per cent

Deeksha Centre for Learning, Bangalore

IIT/JEE coaching in college helped him revise Physics and Chemistry. Hence, he had time to study for Biology at home. Chiraag attributes his success to his parents and his teachers . He plans to take up MBBS next. His first preference is for AIIMS (Delhi) and his next preference is CMC (Vellore).

CET 2010 toppers

Medical-Dental rank

1. Akshay B. Pattabi, St. Aloysius PU College, Mangalore

2. Sunil N, MES PU College, Bangalore

3. Shivaraj Prakash Patil, Expert PU Science College, Mangalore

4. Chirag Mandal, Deeksha Centre for Learning, Bangalore

5. Sanjay Rao Kordcal, Poorna Prajna PU College, Udupi

6. Sharukh S Shaik, Chetan PU Science College, Hubli

7. Kumar S, KLE Society’s Nijalingappa PU College, Bangalore

8. Shiva S Chanda, Sharanabasaveshwara Residential PU College, Gulbarga

9. Siddartha Kishore Baindoor, National Public School, Bangalore

10. Vignesh R, MES PU College, Bangalore

ISM&H rank

1. Akshay B Pattabi, St. Aloysius PU College, Mangalore

2. Sanjay Rao Kordcal, Poorna Prajna PU College, Udupi

3. Shivaraj Prakash Patil, Expert PU Science College, Mangalore

4. Sunil N, MES PU College, Bangalore

5. Sharukh S Shaikh, Chetan PU Science College, Hubli

6. Pananjady Martin Ashwin, National Public School, Bangalore

7. Shiva S Chanda, Sharanabasaveshwara Residential PU College, Gulbarga

8. Vaishak S. Sri Venkateshwara PU College, Hassan

9. Hegde Adarsh Gajanan, MES Chaitanya PU College, Sirsi

10. Kumar S, Nijalingappa PU College, Bangalore

Engineering rank

1. Shanbhag Anil Atmanand, VVS Sardar Patel PU College, Bangalore

2. Giridhar G, Sadvidya Composite PU College, Mysore

3. Vageesh D.C, KLE Society’s PU College, Bangalore

4. Sunil N, MES PU College, Bangalore

5. Prajwal A.N, Vidya Mandira PU College, Bangalore

6. Anshu Avinash, KV ASC Centre(S), Bangalore

7. Srinidhi K.V, Sadvidya Composite PU College, Mysore

8. Abhinav Deshpande, KLE Society’s Independent PU College, Bangalore

9. Satish Chandran E, Sri Chaitanya IIT Academy, Vijayawada

10. Deepak G, Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore

Architecture rank

1. Soujanya K, National Hill View Public School, Bangalore

2. H.U Sachidanand, St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bangalore

3. Gavin Peter Beritto, Christ PU College, Bangalore

4. Millan Mallinath, Sadvidya Composite PU College, Mysore

5. Rohan Suresh, Delhi Public School, Bangalore

6. Aakanksha J, Sri Krishna PU College, Bangalore

7. Sahaja Chandra, VVS Sardar Patel PU College, Bangalore

8. Manasa Divakar, Sarvodaya PU College, Tumkur

9. Vrashika Bopanna, Mount Carmel PU College, Bangalore

10. Tejus K.V, National Academy for Learning, Bangalore