VISAKHAPATNAM: State human resources development minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao released the results of the 'Andhra Pradesh Research Common Entrance Test' (APRCET) in Visakhapatnam on Monday. Andhra University conducted the first ever APRCET for the 14 state universities of Andhra Pradesh from August 24 to 28. It was held at 15 examination centres in 9 cities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Out of the 20,458 candidates who appeared the exam, about 5.46% (1,116 aspirants) qualified for the interviews. About 24,000 students applied for the test.

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AP RCET 2018 RESULT HIGHLIGHTS

1) Total number of candidates registered: 24082

2) Total number of candidates appeared: 20458

3) Total number of candidates qualified for interview: 1116

4) Percentage of candidates qualified for interview: 5.46%

5) 815 (6.41%) of males and 301 (3.88%) of females have qualified.


Speaking after releasing the results, Srinivasa Rao said that the state government had earlier decided to do away with the varsity-level research entrance tests, considering the alleged manipulations in the research admission process on the part of a few state varsities. “We have gone ahead with the APRCET to conduct the research admissions in the best transparent manner. Due to the less pass percentage, the qualifying marks are reduced by 5 percent for all categories of students, i.e., now 45% qualifying marks for the open category and 40% for the reserved categories. There are more than 2,000 PhD and MPhils seats are available in all these varsities through this test,” said Srinivasa Rao.


Andhra University Vice-Chancellor Prof G Nageswara Rao said that Andhra University will forward the merit lists to the concerned universities and admissions process will be taken care by those institutions. “The research committees at the respective universities will conduct interviews for 20 marks. The final merit lists are announced based on the total marks in the APRCET (180 marks) and interview (20 marks),” said Prof Rao.

All the qualified candidates will be called for interviews by the concerned universities where the candidates are required to discuss their research interests/area through a presentation before the duly constituted research committee of the particular university. The students can access the results page on https://sche.ap.gov.in/RCET/RCET/RCET_HomePage.aspx. For further details, the students can contact the officials at #0891-2730148/2730147.