Nearing 60 years, duo to compete with teenagers in Telangana EAPCET
This year, a 56-year-old and 58-year-old have registered for the engineering, and agriculture and pharmacy entrance test, respectively
Hyderabad: Two individuals nearing the age of 60 are set to compete with teenagers for admission into professional programmes, including engineering.
Born in the 1960s, the older adults registered for the Telangana Engineering, Agriculture and Pharmacy Common Entrance Test (TG EAPCET) 2025, which is scheduled to be held from April 29.
As there is no upper age limit for pursuing undergraduate engineering and pharmacy courses in the State, a 58-year-old, whose name is being withheld to protect privacy, has applied to appear in the agriculture and pharmacy entrance test. Another 56 year-old registered for the engineering entrance test this year.
To be eligible for engineering and pharmacy courses, candidates should have completed 16 years of age, as of December 31 of the year of admission, and there is no upper age limit.
As per the notification, the engineering aspirants should have studied and cleared subjects — mathematics, physics and chemistry — in Intermediate. In case of agriculture and pharmacy stream, candidates should have pursued botany, zoology, physics and chemistry subjects.
There is no limit on the number of attempts a candidate can take the tests. Due to this provision, several older adults and senior citizens are registering for the entrance tests. Last year, a 54-year-old registered for the entrance test. The previous year, a 56-year-old man applied for EAPCET.
As the registrations concluded, around 3.06 lakh applications, including 2.20 lakh for engineering and around 86,000 for AP stream, were received.
Meanwhile, the JNTU-Hyderabad, which is holding the TG EAPCET 2025, released the hall tickets that can be downloaded from the website https://eapcet.tgche.ac.in/.
The entrance test will be conducted from April 29, with AP stream scheduled for April 29 and 30 and engineering test on May 2, 3 and 4. Results will be declared in about 10 days into the examination.
