Thiruvananthapuram: Lowest pass percentage in mechatronics, aeronautics

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Aeronautical, mechatronics, automobile and mechanical engineering branches registered the lowest pass percentage in the latest BTech engineering examination results announced by KTU earlier this week.
A detailed analysis of the result shows that electronics & biomedical engineering and industrial engineering registered the highest pass percentage in the BTech engineering results of the 2017 batch published by the varsity on Tuesday.
The pass percentage in aeronautical engineering branch is the lowest with only 28% students clearing the exam. Other branches in the lower rungs are mechatronics with 31.36% pass and 33.55% from automobile engineering.
The only branches that registered pass percentage over 70% were electronics & biomedical (78.13%), industrial (76.19%) and food technology engineering (71.82%).
Statistics indicate that at least a dozen branches have pass percentage below 50%, while 10 branches have registered above-50% pass. Pass percentage in one branch (production engineering) is 50%.
Several branches, including electronics & biomedical and industrial engineering that registered the highest pass percentage, had less than 100 candidates registered for the eighth-semester examination.
The highest number of candidates registered for the 8thsemester examination after obtaining the mandatory credits in lower semesters were from mechanical (7,217) and civil (6,948). Pass percentage in both the branches stood at 37.2% and 49.38%, respectively.
The lowest number of students registered for the finalsemester examination was from metallurgy branch. Only 19 candidates from the branch could register for the 8th-semester examination, of which only nine students cleared it.
In terms of the academic performance index published by the varsity, College of Engineering, Trivandrum, topped the list with 7.21 score on a 10-point scale. TKM College of Engineering, Model Engineering college, Muthoot Institute of Technology & Science were at second, third and fourth positions, respectively.
In the institution-wise result, College of Engineering, Trivandrum, topped the list with 82.49% pass. The college had presented 674 candidates, of which 556 cleared the exam. TKM College of Engineering presented 767 students, the highest number of candidates, of which 567 have passed.