24-05-2025
Hyderabad tops as 84% students clear Polycet-2025
Hyderabad: As many as 84.3% of candidates qualified the State Polytechnic Common Entrance Test (Polycet-2025), conducted by the State Board of Technical Education and Training (SBTET).
Of the 98,858 students who appeared for the test, 83,364 cleared the exam across the two streams — MPC (Maths, Physics, Chemistry) and MBiPC (Maths, Biology, Physics, Chemistry).
The results were announced on Saturday by technical education commissioner A Sridevasena at the SBTET office in Masab Tank. Polycet serves as the gateway to polytechnic colleges across Telangana, offering diploma courses in engineering, non-engineering, and technology, and is also used for admissions into diploma courses in state universities.
Hyderabad recorded the highest number of qualifiers, with 9,258 in MPC and 9,213 in MBiPC, followed by Hanumakonda (5,220 MPC and 5,321 MBiPC) and Nizamabad (4,817 MPC and 4,939 MBiPC).
Continuing the trend from the past two years, girls fared better than boys, with 88.5% qualifying compared to 80.6% of boys. Of the 53,085 boys who appeared, 42,836 qualified, while 40,528 of the 45,773 girls cleared the exam.
In a noteworthy achievement, all 7,459 candidates from Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities qualified.
Among 18,039 Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, only two did not qualify, with the remaining 18,037 cleared the exam.
Officials added that a separate admission notification will be issued for diploma programmes offered by Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Sri Konda Laxman Telangana State Horticultural University, and PV Narsimha Rao Telangana Veterinary University.
