Bengaluru, May 28 (DHNS): A student from Delhi Public School (South) in Bengaluru has secured the first rank in the Under Graduate Entrance Test 2017 (UGET) conducted by Comed-K.

The test is written by candidates seeking entrance to private engineering colleges in Karnataka. Mayank Baranwal of DPS (South) has emerged first, with a score of 165 out of 180.

Vishwajit Prakash Hegde from Sirsi, a student of Deeksha PU College, Bengaluru, came second, with a score of 164. Rudrapatna Vallabh Ramakanth, student of Sri Kumaran Pre-University College, Bengaluru, emerged third, with 163 marks.

The top 10 candidates are from Karnataka, nine of them from Bengaluru. The results were expected on May 29, but were declared two days early.

Conducted by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (Comed-K), the test was held at 290 centres in 132 cities across the country on May 14.

Of the top 100 rank holders, 70 are from Karnataka. Of the top 1,000 rank holders, 398 are from Karnataka.

Of the top 2,000 rank holders, 1,423 candidates have secured more than 70%, 577 between 67% and 70%, and 7,427 between 50% and 60%. The number of seats available, tuition fees and counselling dates will be announced in due course.