TNEA 2021 rank list: 13 students secure perfect 200

The online counselling for special categories will be conducted from September 15 to 24, while those belonging to general category can participate in TNEA counselling from September 27 to October 17. 

At least 13 students have secured a perfect score of 200 in the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) merit list. Of the total 1,74,930 enrolled candidates, 1,36,973 figured on the TNEA rank list prepared by the Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE). 

"According to the 7.5 per cent reservation quota announced this year for government school students in professional courses, 11,390 seats have been reserved for government school students,” said Higher Education Minister K Ponmudi. According to the figures provided by DOTE, as many as 1,51,870 seats in 440 engineering colleges are available this year. Last year, 461 colleges took part in the counselling process. 

The minister said this year, there would be five rounds of online counselling as against last year’s single session. The TNEA counselling for special categories will be conducted from September 15 to 24, while counselling for genral category will be conducted from September 27 to October 17. 

Higher Education Secretary D Karthikeyan said in cases where more than one student secured the same marks in the common merit list, the inter-se-merit among the candidate would be determined by taking into account percentage of marks in a different subject.  

According to him, for those who got the same total marks, the rank list will be prepared with marks scored in mathematics. If even that is same, next would be physics marks. The third one would be an optional subject selected by the students. Further, percentage of total marks in the qualifying exams will be considered as the fourth option and the fifth choice would be Class 10 marks. The sixth option would be calculated as per candidates’ birth date. 

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