Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test

Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test, commonly called as EAMCET, is an entrance examination required for admission to some engineering and medical colleges in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. Many other colleges offering graduation courses like BDS, B.Pharm., BSc., Pharm.D. , B.E, B. Tech, etc. require qualification in this exam. The coaching industry for the EAMCET is estimated at nearly Rs. 50 billion (approximately $110 million) a year.

The EAMCET is a yearly examination taken by a large number of engineering and medical aspirants in Andhra Pradesh. Presently the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH) conducts the examination. This is the entrance exam for engineering ('E' category) and medicine ('AM' category: Agriculture and Medicine). The results are declared over 13 or 14 days every year making the counseling and admission process smooth.This exam is based on "Multiple choice Questions" type.

In 2007, around 185,000 students took the Engineering stream and around 90,000 students in the Medical & Agricultural stream.

on behalf of APSCHE. From 2009 onwards 25% weightage is being given to 10+2 results. The rank will be based on 75% EAMCET marks and 25% intermediate marks (ICSE, CBSE or INTERMEDIATE). Around 311,355 students in Engineering and 65,357 students in Medicine appeared in EAMCET 2009.

In 2010, the EAMCET was conducted on 30 May. This delay was mainly due to the Telangana agitation in the previous months that badly disturbed the teaching schedule of many junior colleges as well as due to the Kurnool floods. This examination saw 367,269 students appearing with 328,359 in the engineering stream and 51,186 in medicine. The 'E' category exam was from 10.00am to 1.00pm while the 'AM' category exam was from 2.30 pm to 5.30pm.

In 2013, the EAMCET was scheduled to be conducted on 10 May. According to a report by The Hindu, 2013 EAMCET received the highest number of applications. 396,143 students wrote for Eamcet exam at nearly 735 Centers located in the state, among them 291,078 students were registered for Engineering stream and 105,065 from Medical stream.Over 80,000 students from Hyderabad alone have taken the test.Though the results of EAMCET 2013 was announced on 5 June the counseling could not begin as scheduled on 17 June,as the fees of the colleges were not fixed.Consortium of engineering and Professional Colleges Managements association (CEPCMA) wanted a hike in fee for admission into engineering colleges for next three academic years following an increase in the expenditure.The government appointed admission and Fee Regulatory committee(AFRC)to decide the fee structure for the engineering colleges and based on that it sought proposals from the colleges. The AFRC has to decide the fee structure based on the available infrastructure facilities.due this delay many students opted universities and college outside Andhra Pradesh.Lastly High court of AP ordered the start of the counseling on 19 Aug with a prior Notification in Public,Though the document verification started smoothly in Help line centers located Telangana Region, The scenario was disrupted in Seemandhra Region following the protest against the bifurcation of the state.The Help line centers did not function for which the convener of Eamcet arranged additional Help line centers(HLC) in order to speed up the document verification process.It is said that the Option entry in the Web counseling Site,would not start unless all the students complete the document verification at the help Line centers

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