Engineering topper Bhavesh Jayanti receives a warm kiss from his family members in Bengaluru on Saturday

BENGALURU: CBSE students from Bengaluru came out right on top in the engineering stream of the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (CET) 2025, results for which were released Saturday.The trend held its own in veterinary sciences, pharmacy, and nursing as well, with boys outshining girls in top 10 rankings for most streams.For the past several years, CBSE students have been dominating the CET entrance tests. However, agriculture turned out to be an exception this time around, with nine state board students – all from the southern districts of Mangalore, Udupi, and Dakshina Karnataka – securing top spots.The top 10 spots in all six streams – engineering, agriculture, nursing, veterinary, pharmacy, and naturopathy and yogic sciences – were claimed by students from Bengaluru and the undivided Dakshina Kannada (Mangalore and Udupi).In engineering, three students from different branches of Chaithanya Techno School topped the list. Bhavesh Jayanti was ranked first, Satwik B Biradar of the Uttarahalli branch was second, while Dhinesh Gomathi Shankar Arunachalam from the Marathahalli branch came third.In agriculture, Akshay M Hegde of Alva’s PU College, Moodbidre, was ranked first, followed by Saish Shravan Pandit and Suchith P Prasad of Expert PU College, who were ranked second and third, respectively.CET was held on April 15, 16, and 17, with around 3.11 lakh students appearing for the exams. Ranks for architecture will be issued based on NATA-2025 scores. Rankings for allied health science courses will be released later.