Hy, don't be embarrassed by this. Select is one very irritating thing in angularjs. Try this one, it worked for me
Only thing here a had to set "options" as array with objects with propertis name, value and selected
var options = [{name:"name1", value="value1", selected=false},
{name:"name2", value="value2", selected=true},
{name:"name3", value="value3", selected=false},]
<select class="form-control" ng-model="modelName">
<option ng-repeat="option in options" value={{option.value}} data-ng-selected="{{option.selected}}">{{
option.name}}</option>
</select>