Cut-off score for MBBS admission in TN up by 80 marks

Cut-off score for MBBS admission in TN up by 80 marks

Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com

Chennai:17.11.2020

Be it open or reserved category, the cut-off mark for MBBS/BDS admission for all students this year has gone up by 80 marks, compared to last year. This became clear when health minister C Vijayabaskar unveiled the official NEET rank list for Tamil Nadu on Monday.

About 940 Open Category (OC) candidates with scores of 601 upwards will be in the reckoning for MBBS admission, whereas it will be 560-plus marks for about 1,430 backward community (BC) candidates. Most Backward Community candidates numbering about 750 with scores above 526 too will be in the zone of consideration. For SCs, the cut off will be 453 and for STs it is  348.

This year’s list has several exceptional features. There is nearly a 20% fall in the overall number of applications from eligible candidates from 57,004 last year to 37,983 this year. And at least 313 seats, including 227 in government run colleges, will go to students from government schools.

“The 7.5% seats meant for government school students will be allotted after counselling for people with disability, sports quota candidates and children of ex-servicemen,” said the minister, adding: “Many students from government schools have managed to secure high marks in NEET.”

The face-to-face counselling, delayed by nearly four months this year, will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from Wednesday, Vijayabaskar said.

Tirupur-based Srijan R (left) was the state NEET 2020 topper with 710 marks and Jeevithkumar N of Theni scored 664, the highest among government school students

57,215 CLEARED TEST FROM TN 

Counselling to be held with pandemic protocols in place

Counselling will be held in strict adherence to all pandemic protocols, Vijayabaskar said, adding that parents and students must wear masks and maintain distancing at all times.

This year, a total of 57,215 students from Tamil Nadu cleared the test. Of the 24,712 applications received for government quota seats, the selection committee of the Directorate of Medical Education has accepted 23,707 forms. For management quota, applications of 14,276 students, out of 14,511, were cleared. This is more than 19,000 applications fewer than last year.

The selection committee confirmed Tirupur-based Srijan R from the Indian Public School in Erode topped the list with 710 marks in NEET 2020, followed by Namakkal-based Mohanaprabha Ravichandran of Alpine Public School. He had scored 705 marks. Chennai’s G Swetha from Velammal Vidyalaya, Ayanambakkam, who got 701 marks, stood third.

Among government school students, Jeevithkumar N from the Government Model Higher Secondary School in Silvarpatti in Theni district topped the list with 664 marks, followed by Kallakurichibased Anbarasan S from Government Boys Higher Secondary Schools. He has scored 646 marks. Chennai’s Dhivaydharshini S from Government Higher Secondary School in Arumbakkam scored 620 marks. At least 14 government students have scored above 500 marks. The cut-off for the government school students is estimated to be around180 marks.

The state has 26 government medical colleges with 3,650 seats of which 3,031are state quota seats. Among the 15 self-financing colleges affiliated to the state TN Dr MGR Medical University 1,147 of the 2,100 seats will be under the state quota, according to the tentative list released by the selection committee.

Tamil Nadu will add 875 MBBS seats to its medical colleges, including deemed universities this year. Admission for deemed universities and all India quota seats are conducted by the directorate general of health Services. Of additional seats two government Kanyakumari Medical College and ESIC college in KK Nagar have got 50 and 25 additional seats respectively. Two self-financing colleges Indira Medical College and Hospitals in Tiruvallur and permitted Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute will add150 seats each. With this, the state will have 52 medical colleges with 8,000 seats.