Andhra Pradesh students' IIT party continues

HYDERABAD: Students from Andhra Pradesh have once again excelled in the IIT-JEE examinations that were held across the country on April 8.
A quick scan of individual marks released by IIT on Saturday shows that at least a dozen students from the state have secured between 341 and 373 out of a total 401 marks.
This is the first time that IIT has released scores prior to the announcement of rankings.The final rankings will be declared on May 18.
Nishanth R, a student at a corporate college in the city, is being tipped to be the highest scorer in AP with 373 marks. Nishanth, according to his parents, put in as many as 10 hours of labour daily while preparing for the competitive examination.
"My son has always wanted to join IIT and has been working single-mindedly towards this goal.
"He is keen on enrolling either at IIT-Mumbai or IIT-Delhi, opting for either electronics or computer science," said proud father K Sridhar who is a superintendent engineer with the Warangal Municipal Corporation.
Others like Sai Suman Jagadeesh from Nellore and Rajiv Reddy from Hyderabad, too, have scored high marks, obataining, respectively, 370 and 365 marks.
"My son wants to join IIT-Mumbai and pursue computer science," said Jagadeesh's father N Hareram, a government school teacher.
The individual scorecards indicate that, this year, boys from the state have outshone girls. Among those figuring in the top 12, there are just about a couple of girls from the state.
A total of 1.75 lakh students from the state took the IIT entrance this year. According to preliminary observations, coaching centres in Hyderabad claim that close to 300 students have made it to the national top 1,000. Annually, AP contributes about 20% of the IIT student strength.