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**POLYCET 2025 Results Declared; Girls Outperform Boys**
**Hyderabad, May 24, 2025:** The results for the Polytechnic Common Entrance Test (POLYCET) 2025 were announced this morning by Commissioner of Technical Education, A. Sridevasena, at S V Bhavan, Masab Tank. Out of 98,858 candidates who appeared for the exam, 81.88% in the MPC (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry) stream and 84.33% in the MBiPC (Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry) stream successfully cleared the test.
Notably, female candidates outperformed their male counterparts in both streams. In the MPC stream, 85.26% of girls passed compared to 78.97% of boys. Similarly, in the MBiPC stream, 88.54% of girls cleared the exam, while the pass percentage for boys stood at 80.69%.
Several students achieved top ranks. In the MPC stream, Goruganti Sreeja (Suryapet), Thumati Laasya Sree (Khammam), Vundyala Koushik Narayana (Mahbubnagar), and Visavaram Deekshika (Sangareddy) shared the top rank with a perfect score of 120. The MBiPC stream also saw shared top ranks by Goruganti Sreeja (Suryapet), Thumati Laasya Sree (Khammam), Shaik Ifra Tasneem (Suryapet), and Vundyala Koushik Narayana (Mahbubnagar).
Successful candidates are now eligible to pursue diploma courses in various streams across polytechnic institutions in the state. The announcement was attended by Secretary B. Srinivas, Joint Secretary Shafiaz Aktar, and other officials from the Department of Technical Education.
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