Over a lakh students appeared for the State entrance examination for engineering and pharmacy courses (KEAM 2022) on Monday.
According to official statistics, as many as 1,02,066 higher education aspirants took the examination from 346 centres across the State and in New Delhi, Mumbai and Dubai. A total of 1,22,039 students had downloaded their hall tickets.
While all attendees appeared for paper 1 (Physics and Mathematics), 75,784 out of the 93,232 BPharm course applicants attempted the paper 2 (Mathematics) alone. Engineering aspirants are supposed to take both papers to qualify for admission.