TANCET 2025 will be held in March. To crack the exam, candidates must follow a smart and targeted preparation plan. Here are a few tips on how to prepare for TANCET 2025 exam.
How to Prepare for TANCET
Anna University is conducting conducts TANCET exam for admission to MBA and MCA courses offered by the colleges in Tamil Nadu. TANCET 2025, this year’s entrance exam, will be held on March 9. TANCET exam is critical for MBA aspirants as more than 20,000 candidates fight for seats in Tamil Nadu colleges. To clear the exam, candidates must adopt smart and targeted preparation strategy. Test takers need to plan, prioritise and execute their tasks accordingly. Once you have fixed a goal and the right plan to prepare for TANCET 2025, start executing it. This article of Shiksha presents some crucial and essential preparation strategies for TANCET.
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How to Prepare for TANCET 2025?
In terms of difficulty, TANCET exam is considered moderately difficult. If compared with other state or national level MBA entrance exams, such as CAT, XAT, or MAT, TANCET is considered easy. Primary reason for easier exam level is the competition and the colleges accepting TANCET scores.
TANCET exam's English Proficiency section is further divided into two sub-sections. These sub-sections include Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability followed by General English which evaluates the grammatical skills of the candidate. Candidates should develop a habit of reading newspapers, magazines and books to have a better understanding of English Knowledge. They can also refer to High School Grammar by Wren and Martin for developing a strong foundation. Basic Grammar forms the base of this examination and a candidate should be good in basic grammar such as Articles, Parts of Speech, Tense, etc. A candidate needs to read the basic grammar books and can also learn the rules of grammar online by practicing more. Following areas require candidate's attention to score well in the TANCET English section:
- Vocabulary
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- One word Substitutions
- Idioms and Phrases
- Spotting Errors
The tips below are meant for those candidates who have just started their TANCET preparation. The beginning of any exam preparation is based on knowing the details of the test. Let us check the preparation pointers in detail.
Know the topics well
Once your target is clear and the goal is set, the first and foremost step is to know the subjects/topics. To ensure that you are heading in the right direction of preparation, knowing the exam pattern and syllabus is imperative.
Focus on conceptual understanding
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Understanding the concepts is crucial as it will help you to retain the knowledge of the subjects for a longer period. Once you know the subjects and topics well, focus on conceptual learning rather than memorising from books or study materials. Candidates can simplify their learning by making short notes to recall formulas, theorems, and equations.
Solve previous years’ question papers and mock tests
Candidates should not forget to attempt TANCET previous years' question papers and mock tests. It shapes up the right temperament for the examination, which will eventually help to deliver an optimum result. Besides, it will let you self-evaluate your preparation.
Work on improving speed and accuracy
Speed and accuracy are the two most important factors to achieving success in TANCET 2025 exam. While solving previous years’ question papers or attempting mock tests, keep track of your speed. Besides this, make sure that you have solved the questions accurately.
Time management
The TANCET exam has five sections, namely,
- Business Situations
- Reading Comprehension
- Quantitative Ability
- Data Sufficiency
- English Usage
As per the TANCET exam pattern, a total of 100 questions are asked collectively from all sections of the TANCET exam. All five section of TANCET MBA exam have equal weightage. Therefore, candidates have to answer a total of 20 questions, irrespective of the section. Since all sections of the TANCET exam have equal weightage, candidates must take all sections seriously. Each section of TANCET exam holds identical importance.
Candidates must have a proper time-management strategy for attempting each section of the paper. Try to finish the paper on time and improve your timing with every attempt. The time management strategy has to be built while taking mock tests. Note the time spent for each question. According to experts, you should not spend more than two minutes on one question. In case you are stuck in a question, just leave it and move towards the next question and come back to the previous question later.
Learn from mistakes
After every mock test, do not forget to analyse your performance. Note down the questions which you could not attempt correctly. Thoroughly revise the topics so that you can improve your weak areas before the exam.
Focus on weaker areas
Mostly, candidates allot time to the areas they prefer and are therefore stronger. We suggest you spend more time on the weaker areas. Especially in the initial preparation stage, put their best foot forward to improve the weak areas. But at the same time, don't compromise on preparing the strong areas or leave it for last-moment preparation. At the later stages, do not start new topics or spend much time on the weak areas if you could not make much progress. Since confidence is key, shortlist and select topics that one can solve accurately, which improves your confidence level and leads to a high score.
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Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 2 months ago
TANCET counselling is conducted by GCT Coimbatore. DTE, Tamil Nadu has allocatted the responsibility for TANCET counselling to GCT, Coimbatore. Candidates will have to participate in the centralised counselling process for TANCET based admissions.
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Beginner-Level 5
Answered 2 months ago
The last date for TANCET exam registration lie around 20-30 days after the start date. Therefore, registrations starting in January will last until February.
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Beginner-Level 5
Answered 2 months ago
No, there is no facility for revaluation in TANCET exam. The results declared by Anna University are final and will be considered for admissions in Tamil Nadu. Anna University will not entertain any requests for revaluation and rechecking of the TANCET answer sheet.
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Beginner-Level 5
Answered 2 months ago
TANCET exam has objective type questions, this means that each question will have four options. Candidates have to choose one correct answer option for the question in the TANCET exam.
Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 months ago
TANCET exam is conducted once every year. Candidates aiming for admissions via TANCET in current year must appear for the current cycle of the TANCET exam. In case of change in the TANCET exam frequency, Anna University will notify the details on teh official website and the infoirmation brochure.
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Beginner-Level 5
Answered 2 months ago
TANCET scores remain valid for a period of one admission cycle. Candidates appearing for the TANCET exam in this year can only get admission in the current admission cycle.
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Beginner-Level 5
Answered 2 months ago
Yes, TANCET exam consists of negative marking. For each incorrect response candidates face a penalty of 1/3 mark. Therefore, candidates must avoid guesswork while answering questions in the TANCET exam.
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Beginner-Level 5
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TANCET exam details are released around the month of January every year. Candidates find the start dare for the TANCET registration along with the TANCET syllabus, infomation brochure, and exam date. Additionally, the TANCET website mentions the notification release date beforehand. TANCET notificat
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Beginner-Level 5
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TANCET ranks are allotted based on the marks of the candidates. All candidates with a TANCET Bscore who get their documents verified before the counselling process will be placed in the TANCET rank list. the highest scorer in the TANCET exam who will get the documents verified will get first rank in
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TANCET exam scores are accepted by more than 200 colleges in Tamil Nadu. TANCET scores help in admissioin toi MBA as well as MCA colleges in the state. DTE conducts centralised counselling process to fill the seats based on the TANCET scores.
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Yes, it is easy to obtain high score in TANCET exam. to meet the cutoff scores. An exam is considered tough or easy by an individual based on his/her preparation. TANCET exam pattern is easier compared to other MBA entrance exams such as CAT, XAT, CMAT, etc.
TANCET MBA has five sections with 20 marks for each section. These sections are mentioned below: