Bangalore :
Takasi Anush Babu smelt sweet success on Friday. As sweet as the scented flowers that his florist father sells in his tiny shop in the coastal Kakinada city of Andhra Pradesh. For Anush had grabbed the first rank in the Comed-Karnataka PGET, results of which were announced on Friday.
It has been a story of sheer hard work and perseverance for Anush who completed his MBBS from KS Hegde Medical Academy, Mangalore. While he was open to take any course with Biology in it after his Class 12, it was his mom’s dream to see him as a doctor that pushed Anush to write the medical entrance – he had to repeat the entrance exams for two years before he bagged a seat.
“Their dream is to see me set up a hospital or a clinic in my hometown. That is my long-term goal now,” Anush told TOI from AP. “I would either take up radiology or general medicine. I would like to take up radiology as it is does not need further specialization. But my parents would love to see me as a general physician,” he said.
The Andhra hegemony continued with students from the neighbouring state filling the top three medical ranks. The topper in the dental stream too is from Andhra Pradesh. Kothapalli Manasa was speechless when TOI informed her about the results. “I am shocked. I was not expecting first rank. I have been preparing for the entrance exam conducted by AP for PG dental courses too,” she said, adding that she aimed to teach rather than practice dentistry.
Manasa, daughter of Ramakrishna Kothapalli, a businessman, says everyday she had devoted around 12 hours to crack the ComedK test. “If I don’t get a seat to pursue PG in oral and maxillofacial surgery at a government college in AP, than I will pursue the same course in Karnataka,” she added.
None of the top ten ranks were bagged by Karnataka students in both dental and medical streams. For medical PG courses 16,856 candidates had applied for the entrance test. Of these, 83% appeared and 7,587 (55%) became eligible for seat selection process. The percentage of candidates becoming eligible for seat selection process is high for PG dental courses. As many as 4,723 candidates had applied for PG dental courses of which 93% wrote the test and 3,711 (85%) were declared eligible for the seats.
Candidates from Andhra Pradesh outperformed in the medical stream by grabbing six ranks of the top ten ranks. Kerala and Maharashtra secured one rank each while Tamil Nadu bagged two. Girls outclassed boys in the dental stream bagging nine of the top 10 ranks while in medical, the boys secured seven ranks.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Bangalore> Namma Metro / TNN / February 22nd, 2014