The average pass percentage for students each year is about 85%, which is much above the Osmania University average. Many of our students have scored 100% marks in paper -I, II and IV in the University Examinations.

Student Achievements for 2011

• Two students   Muthuselvi and Upasana Prasad secured 100% marks in their Chemistry final examinations conducted by the Osmania University.
  1. Students of BSc III yr   (life sciences) won the overall trophy in the Chemistry fest organized by St Francis College for Women, Begumpet.
  2. Sujata Srinivas won the first prize for the essay and presentation on ‘Green Chemistry’ organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, Deccan Chapter. She was the only undergraduate student selected for the final round out of hundreds of competitors.

Activities for academic Year 2011-12:

On the 10th of August, a poster presentation was organised where a few posters were put up by students about "Chemistry in Daily life". A popular lecture was organised on the 9th September 2011. The topic was again "Chemistry in Daily Life". The lecture was given by Sujata Srinivasan and Bhaskar
Kasbekar of BSc (MGC) II year. It was received well by all the lecturers and  students who attended. These were held to popularise Chemistry in this year, the  Year of Chemistry.

A talk by one of our alumni, Dr Naresh, was arranged on the 8th of November 2011.  Dr Naresh was a student of our college.He is at present, a post doctoral research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. His talk showed the students the opportunities available to them if they developed good work culture and work ethics.

A trip was organised by the Chemistry Department to the IKP Knowledge Park. The II year BSc life science students went to visit the IKP Knowledge Park at the  Genome Valley in Turkapally on the 9th November 2011.

Dr Jitendra Prasad explained to the students what the IKP was all about. He suggested that more students become entrepreneurs and start their own businesses after they graduate or after they get some training in business management.

Ms Deepti took the students around the incubation centre and explained to them what equipment were available for use in their wet labs. They also visited the Garden Of Life which had about 200 species of medicinal plants.

Activities 2010-11:

We organize guest lectures  on topics related to the course of study.
Some of these are:

1. Bio-technology, the next revolution?? – by Dr. Anil Kumar Challa, Co-founder, Indigenese.
2. Bio-Informatics for Biologists- by Dr. Rachelle, Senior Scientist at CCMB.

3,       3.      In coordination with the other departments of Life Sciences, we organized a Career  Counseling
          workshop for students of Intermediate to create awareness about the various career options available
          after a B.Sc degree in life sciences.

    4.     A talk on HIV and AIDS  by Dr Vidya Jonnalagadda

    5.      In-house  presentations titled “ Lab Safety”  and   “Plagiarism”

    6.      Student seminars on various topics of scientific interest.

 The Chemistry Department has coordinated a value−addition course titled “ Foundation  Course for Bioinformatics”  organized for Life Sciences students in 2010-2011.

The department has maintained a Science Wall Magazine since 1998 where students put up scientific articles of common  interest.
Our students also take part in poster presentations, quiz competitions and seminars regularly.