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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Upswing Only After Professional Entrance Exam Was Removed In 2007: Experts
Chennai: There is a big leap in the number of BE/BTech aspirants who had completed schooling with Tamil as the medium of instruction in the state this year. Besides, topranking students including those who studied in English medium schools are opting for BE Civil and Mechanical Engineering courses in Tamil medium.
“The number of Tamil medium students who have applied for the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010) is 67,727,” TNEA secretary V Rhymend Uthariaraj disclosed on Friday.
This constitutes 40% of the 1,67,406 applicants and is the highest in the history of technical education in the state.
In contrast last year, only 50,564 Tamil medium students were in the race for BE/BTech admissions. In 2008, the figure was 50,465.
Academics point out that this upward trend of students from Tamil medium schools applying for engineering courses was registered only after the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination (TNPCEE) was abolished in 2007.
“Since most Tamil medium students hailed from rural areas they were unable to prepare for the TNPCEE.
During 2005 and 2006, when an appearance in the TNPCEE was mandatory for BE admission, only 23.81% and 24.80% of the aspirants for government quota seats respectively were from Tamil medium schools,” an academic said.
According to Uthariaraj, a significant factor this year is that the 13 top-ranking academic stream students with high cut-off marks of 192-plus have joined the BE courses introduced in Tamil medium at the Anna University’s College of Engineering in Guindy (CEG) over the past five days. This excludes nine physically disabled candidates who had joined BE Tamil medium courses in the university’s constituent colleges.
Surprisingly, three high rankers had studied in English medium schools. G Gayathri of Salem (194.50) has opted for BE Civil Engineering in Tamil medium at the CEG.
“My daughter had a deep desire to study in the CEG as it is considered the number one technical institution. Besides, recently the chief minister had announced that those graduating in Tamil medium will get preference in government jobs. Hence she opted for the Tamil medium course,” said Gayathri’s father Ganesan, a headmaster at the Kottai municipal school in Salem.
Asked how she would cope with the lessons in Tamil since she had studied in an English medium school, Ganesan said, “My daughter studied Tamil as the first language. Besides, being a mathematics teacher myself, I know that the medium of instruction is not important to understand the concepts.”
However, another English medium candidate S Rishi Bharadwaj who too picked a seat in the same course with a cut-off score of 192.50, said he did it “just like that. I can’t say right now whether I will eventually attend classes. I am expecting admission in another college.”
Rise in Tamil-medium BE aspirants
Upswing Only After Professional Entrance Exam Was Removed In 2007: Experts
This constitutes 40% of the 1,67,406 applicants and is the highest in the history of technical education in the state.
In contrast last year, only 50,564 Tamil medium students were in the race for BE/BTech admissions. In 2008, the figure was 50,465.
Academics point out that this upward trend of students from Tamil medium schools applying for engineering courses was registered only after the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination (TNPCEE) was abolished in 2007.
“Since most Tamil medium students hailed from rural areas they were unable to prepare for the TNPCEE.
During 2005 and 2006, when an appearance in the TNPCEE was mandatory for BE admission, only 23.81% and 24.80% of the aspirants for government quota seats respectively were from Tamil medium schools,” an academic said.
According to Uthariaraj, a significant factor this year is that the 13 top-ranking academic stream students with high cut-off marks of 192-plus have joined the BE courses introduced in Tamil medium at the Anna University’s College of Engineering in Guindy (CEG) over the past five days. This excludes nine physically disabled candidates who had joined BE Tamil medium courses in the university’s constituent colleges.
Surprisingly, three high rankers had studied in English medium schools. G Gayathri of Salem (194.50) has opted for BE Civil Engineering in Tamil medium at the CEG.
“My daughter had a deep desire to study in the CEG as it is considered the number one technical institution. Besides, recently the chief minister had announced that those graduating in Tamil medium will get preference in government jobs. Hence she opted for the Tamil medium course,” said Gayathri’s father Ganesan, a headmaster at the Kottai municipal school in Salem.
Asked how she would cope with the lessons in Tamil since she had studied in an English medium school, Ganesan said, “My daughter studied Tamil as the first language. Besides, being a mathematics teacher myself, I know that the medium of instruction is not important to understand the concepts.”
However, another English medium candidate S Rishi Bharadwaj who too picked a seat in the same course with a cut-off score of 192.50, said he did it “just like that. I can’t say right now whether I will eventually attend classes. I am expecting admission in another college.”
Courtesy: Times of India
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