50% marks in Inter subjects mandatory From this year for AP-EAMCET 2011

 From this 2011 50% marks in Intermediate in Maths, Physics and Chemistry to be eligible for admission to engineering colleges. Students from SC and ST should get at least 40%. The new norm may prove disastrous for Engineering colleges as nearly 80,000 students who qualified in Eamcet last year did not secure 50% marks in Inter.
But from next year, those who do no secure 50 per cent marks will not be able to pursue Engineering courses resulting in thousands of seats remaining vacant. The requirement of 50% in Inter was applicable only to Eamcet medical stream students in accordance with the directions of the Medical Council of India two years ago.
The new norm, that is meant to improve standards in professional education, will be incorporated in the Eamcet notification set to be issued in the first week of February.
This follows the decision of the AICTE to increase the qualifying marks from 35% to 50% in 10+2 exams to improve the standards in Engineering.