Students had tough time in Eamcet

HYDERABAD: Seven questions -- five in the medicine stream and two in engineering -- gave tense moments to Eamcet-2009 aspirants on Thursday.
Over 3.6 lakh students -- 3,02,488 engineering and 62,773 medicine -- sat for the career-making entrance test across the state. The preliminary key will be out on May 21, while the final one on May 28. The initial results (marks) are likely to be out by June 1. The marks will be posted on www.apeamcet.org. However, the Eamcet rank will be calculated based on 25 per cent weightage of Intermediate or equivalent exam marks.
Eamcet aspirants said the engineering paper had the usual pattern of short questions, while the medicine paper had time-consuming questions, derailing all their time management skills.
In the engineering paper, a question on elasticity in the physics section did not have the correct answer among the options. In the chemistry section, a question on reaction between cupric oxide and ammonia was out of syllabus.
In medicine, a physics question did not have the correct answer among the options. Another question was out of syllabus, while three questions in zoology had multiple answers.
According to V Kumar, dean, Sri Chaitanya Group of Colleges, in the physics section of medicine, a question on LCR circuits had no correct answer among the options. And in chemistry, a question on osmosis was from B Sc syllabus. "Since Eamcet is based on Intermediate syllabus, the application should not have been included in the question paper," Kumar added. Three other questions from the assertion reasoning type in zoology were found to be ambiguous with multiple answers.
When asked about the mistakes, Eamcet-2009 chairman and JNTU vice-chancellor, D N Reddy said expert committees would be constituted for each subject before arriving at the key.
Aspirants were surprised to find several questions from newly-included sections. "From the newly-included section of biomolecules, five questions were included in the chemistry paper," J Avanthi, a student who appeared for the engineering stream at College of Engineering on OU Campus, said.
"The biology section was lengthy and time-consuming. As a result, there was not much time left to solve a relatively easy physics section," Santhosh Swaminathan, who wrote the medicine test, said.
Meanwhile, several students from Medak and Ranga Reddy district were not allowed to get into the examination hall as they were late by five to 10 minutes. The students were forced to take the examination in the city as many of the centres in these districts were converted into counting centres.
"I came five minutes late and told the authorities that it took time for me to come from Sanga Reddy. But I was not allowed to write the examination," M Surya Prakash said.
Parents of three students shouted slogans and staged a dharna before OU Engineering College before Eamcet for medicine stream began. The officials, however, did not allow the students to take the examinations as per instructions of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Kukatpally, which conducted the test.