TN MBBS cut-off to increase by 100 marks
Counselling To Begin Tomorrow
Pushpa Narayan & A Ragu Raman TNN
Chennai:07.07.2019
The cut-off for MBBS in Tamil Nadu will go up by at least 100 marks in most categories due to the surge in top scorers in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2019, according to the rank list released by health minister C Vijayabaskar on Saturday. Counselling will begin on Monday.
Shruthi K of Tiruvallur topped the state with 685 marks in NEET followed by Aswin Raj A K and Elamathi V with 677 and 676. While Shruthi scored nine marks higher than last year’s topper, Aswin and Elamathi scored 21 and 26 points higher than their counterparts last year. With admission to MBBS — 3,968 government quota seats and 852 management quota seats — and BDS (dental) based on NEET 2019 marks and 69% reservation rule, experts said cut-off will go up by between 56 and 120 marks across categories.
“In 2018, 1,279 students scored 400 and above. Now, 5,710 candidates have scoed 400 and above in NEET. So, barring students in scheduled categories, even 400 marks will not guarantee a seat,” said educational consultant J P Gandhi.
The open category cut-off may be around 527, compared to 424 in 2018 as 4,320 students scored more than 424 marks. Toppers from all communities will compete for 31% quota of open seats.
The BC cut-off is likely to be 477, 108 marks more than in 2018.
The biggest gap is likely to be among BCM and MBC candidates with a difference of nearly 120 marks each.
The cut-off for BCM students could be 462, 443 for MBCs, 369 for scheduled castes, 303 for SCA (scheduled caste-Arunthathiyar) and 283 for ST. “These numbers may go down by five to seven points but it will be a tough fight for many students,” said Manickavel Arumugam, who has been counselling students on NEETbased medical admissions. “In fact, the seats for general category are likely to be over in the first two days. The schedule does not even call for BC category because by then all BC seats will be exhausted.”
The minister said the state did everything it could to encourage as many students as possible to study medicine. “We increased 350 MBBS seats in government medical colleges. Besides a new medical college in Karur, seats have been added in Madurai and Tirunelveli medical colleges.”
Although applications were sold and processed online, the selection committee decided to conduct counselling in person to verify nativity certificates, he said. While, 29,101studied in Tamil Nadu, 2,096 studied outside the state. Besides, 156 from other states who studied here also applied.
There are 22,389 state board candidates, 8,338 from CBSE, 359 from ISC and 267 others.
Counselling To Begin Tomorrow
Pushpa Narayan & A Ragu Raman TNN
Chennai:07.07.2019
The cut-off for MBBS in Tamil Nadu will go up by at least 100 marks in most categories due to the surge in top scorers in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2019, according to the rank list released by health minister C Vijayabaskar on Saturday. Counselling will begin on Monday.
Shruthi K of Tiruvallur topped the state with 685 marks in NEET followed by Aswin Raj A K and Elamathi V with 677 and 676. While Shruthi scored nine marks higher than last year’s topper, Aswin and Elamathi scored 21 and 26 points higher than their counterparts last year. With admission to MBBS — 3,968 government quota seats and 852 management quota seats — and BDS (dental) based on NEET 2019 marks and 69% reservation rule, experts said cut-off will go up by between 56 and 120 marks across categories.
“In 2018, 1,279 students scored 400 and above. Now, 5,710 candidates have scoed 400 and above in NEET. So, barring students in scheduled categories, even 400 marks will not guarantee a seat,” said educational consultant J P Gandhi.
The open category cut-off may be around 527, compared to 424 in 2018 as 4,320 students scored more than 424 marks. Toppers from all communities will compete for 31% quota of open seats.
The BC cut-off is likely to be 477, 108 marks more than in 2018.
The biggest gap is likely to be among BCM and MBC candidates with a difference of nearly 120 marks each.
The cut-off for BCM students could be 462, 443 for MBCs, 369 for scheduled castes, 303 for SCA (scheduled caste-Arunthathiyar) and 283 for ST. “These numbers may go down by five to seven points but it will be a tough fight for many students,” said Manickavel Arumugam, who has been counselling students on NEETbased medical admissions. “In fact, the seats for general category are likely to be over in the first two days. The schedule does not even call for BC category because by then all BC seats will be exhausted.”
The minister said the state did everything it could to encourage as many students as possible to study medicine. “We increased 350 MBBS seats in government medical colleges. Besides a new medical college in Karur, seats have been added in Madurai and Tirunelveli medical colleges.”
Although applications were sold and processed online, the selection committee decided to conduct counselling in person to verify nativity certificates, he said. While, 29,101studied in Tamil Nadu, 2,096 studied outside the state. Besides, 156 from other states who studied here also applied.
There are 22,389 state board candidates, 8,338 from CBSE, 359 from ISC and 267 others.
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