Banda boy and Faizabad girl are BEd toppers

Lucknow: Banda's Ankit Kumar topped the joint entrance exam for admissions to bachelor of education (BED - JEE). A BA graduate from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Mahavidyalaya, an affiliated college of Bundelkhand University, Ankit scored 316.67 marks out of 400. In the girl's category, the first rank was secured by Priti Pandey, a native of Faizabad. She scored 309 marks in the examinations.
Results show that Allahabad district took the top slots. Of the top 10 ranks, six are from Allahabad. From Lucknow, Ankit Tiwari bagged 15th rank. Allahabad's Luvkush Kumar and Ramkrit Chauhan bagged the second and third rank, respectively.
"I never thought I will be a topper. For me, its a big thing. But since I got through the Lekhpal appointment process, I will be joining the job soon," said Ankit.
A total of 3,03,032 candidates had registered for BEd exam. Out of this, 2,64,470 appeared for the test. Results of 2,63,199 candidates have been declared. Results of remaining 1,268 candidates was not declared as these candidates didn't appear for the second paper.
State coordinator BEd 2016 YK Sharma informed that the first round of counselling is slated from June 6. The counselling will be dispatched to the students likely from May 30. The counselling will take place in 32 centres in 14 cities - Agra, Aligarh, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Jhansi, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Varanasi, Lucknow, Allahabad, Faizabad, Bareilly, Gorakhpur.