SASTRA (Deemed to be University) Thanjavur Answered Questions

In first counselling, college will allocate seats upto 2k rank in stream 1. If the aspirants in that counselling left SASTRA for better opportunities. Then there will be a chance for you. All the CSE, ECE, ICT, IT, seats will be filled below the 1k-1.5k rank for sure. So all you have is MECH, CIVIL, EEE, EIE, BIOTECH AND CHEMICAL and many more. These have less demand from the past years and the seats in these Branches are vacant till the last round of counselling. First know your strengths. Don't join in any branch thinking all are the same. Decide the branch first. You can study B Tech in any college that doesn't matter. There are a lot of sources in the web which are ready to explain the subject absolutely for free. It's purely based on your interest. Please don't do B.Tech just for the sake of degree.

SASTRA University is far better/more recognised than SASTRA University. You would have better opportunities/placements at Anna University. Anna University stands in top 10 list of best Engineering colleges in India, where SASTRA stands somewhere between 40 to 60. With that said SASTRA is not bad either, I am a SASTRA alum but given a chance, I would do my engineering at Anna.

Day 1: a maximum of 1300 people would attend the counselling (considering 1 rank is given to multiple candidates) and end up taking close to 80% of the seats. Day 2: first slot must pick the remaining 20%. Hardly any seats are left for the remaining slots. Day 3: Outstation candidates no need to attend. Please check the website before you plan on attending the counselling on Day 3. This is helpful for candidates from Trichy & Tanjore Quota only. If you want to join at any cost, there is an option through management quota for which you should have applied well in advance. Good luck!

It depends upon the competition and number of students applied. For the academic year 2022-2023 students who got above 985 & above got seat in CSE and ECE departments. Last year it was really tough! Students with 985 to 986 Got ECE mechanical EEE and IT. The cutoff for CSE was 987 and above
This year I think the cutoff for CSE will be 988 or may be more.

As you have mentioned that you have got 98% in boards and taking into consideration that you have secured 88 percentile in JEE Mains, so let me tell you sastra University doesn't have any cut off as a merit list will be prepared by the college authorities. On the basis of this merit list you would be admitted to the college. 70% weightage is given to JEE Mains and 30% weightage was given to 12th boards. Furthermore it depends on certain factors like number of candidates appearing in the examination, number of vacant seats in college, difficulty level of JEE Mains paper.

There is no such criteria (minimum JEE marks) for admission in to SASTRA university. SASTRA university has a separate procedure through stream 1 and stream 2 .
Stream 1
70 percent seats of every branch are filled through stream 1 based on 12 th percentage ( 75 percent after normalisation ) + JEE mains score ( 25 percent )
For example
12 th percentage - 88 (CBSE) and JEE mains score is 80 .
Normalised percentage of board would be as follows
88 * 100/98.6 = 89.25
(Assuming percentage of topper is 98.6 )
Now 89.25 * 0.75 + 80 * 0.25 =86.94
This is your final score . AIR (SASTRA) is prepared based on this final score . There is a chance AIR up to 4000 .
If someone is a topper of board exam and his JEE mains score is 40 then final score would be 85 and AIR (SASTRA) would be above 5000 . It proves that there is no chance for JEE mains score below 40 in stream 1 .
Stream 2 .
30 percent seats of every branch are filled through stream 2 based on 12 th percentage .
There is very less chance for percentage below 95 in stream 2 .
I know your chances are less but your intermediate marks is good so you still stand a chance to get admission through stream 1.