Second round of TN engg counseling begins today

CHENNAI: The second round of counselling for students seeking engineering seats in Tamil Nadu has begun today with more than 30,000 students expected to participate in the admission process.

With engineering seats allocated to as many as 11,595 candidates during the first round of counselling, the second session will be conducted for the students, who had secured cut-off marks between 184.5 and 163 (from rank 14,524 to 45,577). Accordingly, the counselling started at 10 am on Sunday.

"The tentative allotment will be made for these students on September 28,” a senior official from the Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE).

Stating that the final provisional allotment list will be released on October 13 for the students, who participated in the second round of counselling. The third round of counselling will begin on the same day, where students who secured cut-off marks between 162.9 and 130.2 are expected to participate.

"For these candidates, the final provisional allotment list will be released on October 29,” the DOTE official said. He said as per the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA-2022) schedule, the final and fourth round of counselling for the students, who secured cut-off marks between 130 and 77 in the general category will begin on October 29 and would end on November 11.