The TNEA Stats

With the results of all the board been declared the below table is  a summary of what the students of different boards can analyse when seeking admission into colleges through the single window counselling of the state counselling board for admissions into Anna University colleges in Tamil Nadu Tamilnadu Engineering Cut-off Mark Trend Analysis 2005 - 2012 Mat. Phy. Che. (MPC) Cut-off marks Difference in 1 Mark 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 200 192 3 22 36 44 31 120 35 199-199.25 1325 95 282 631 707 578 1042 688 198 - 198.25 1815 235 436 907 1117 1045 1522 1198 197 - 197.25 1915 336 585 1117 1374 1216 1547 1596 196 - 196.25 1828 446 700 1133 1417 1392 1553 1683 195 - 195.25 1760 520 798 1166 1496 1390 1624 1726 195 - 200 8835 1635 2823 4990 6155 5652 7408 6926

This years CBSE topper Sanjay Ganapathy of Bhavans School, Chennai secured centum in Mathematics and Physics, 97 in Chemistry, 98 in computer Science and 95 in English which makes his cutoff at 198.5/200 for the Tamil Nadu Engineering counselling, but as he has cleared the IITJEE with a rank of 194 prefers to join IIT M. A wise decision indeed as he would be getting a rank of 900-1000 in the TNEA rank list.

More over the state counselling is tentatively to commence on the 13 July'12 this year and by which time the NITs , deemed colleges and IITs would have finished their counselling. This clearly states that the Tamil Nadu state prefers the students who were left behind in the race from CBSE boards to seek admission in their colleges.
The state has about 550 odd colleges for BE/B Tech and every year thousands of seats remain vacant. Last year about 40000 seats were unoccupied and this year it is estimated that about 25000 seats will go vacant. Wonder why the state is yielding to quantity over quality in graduating engineers ? instead would'nt it be wiser to close down a few colleges and provide quality professionals.. to our country.