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| Friday, July 04, 2008
Visit website before attending engineering counselling
- Will save time and narrow down options for
those who are preparing for counselling
- The website, www.collegesintamilnadu.com
will give candidates a fairly good idea
Coimbatore: With counselling for engineering students in the
general category round the corner, students and parents are
confused regarding the choice of course and college.
Nearly 1.23 lakh candidates will attend counselling to fill
69,731 seats in Government colleges and the Government quota
seats in self-financing colleges.
More colleges
Further increase in number of colleges and courses only adds
to their concern. The reservation sub-heads have also increased
to seven from the original five - (OC – 31, BC –
23, BCC (BC Christian) – 3.5, BCM (BC Muslim) –
3.5, MBC – 20, SC – 18 and ST – 1).
Don’t panic
Though experts say there is no reason to panic if one goes well
prepared, attending counselling remains a formidable task.
Only when the candidate reaches the counselling centre –
Anna University, Chennai – does he/she get an idea of
the vacancy position college-wise and course-wise in OC / BC
/ BCM / BCC / MBC / SC / ST categories.
Would their choice become easier, if they get to know the colleges
where they can get admissions, based on the previous year’s
results?.
For those who find themselves in a similar dilemma, there seems
to be a plausible solution in sight. The website, http://www.collegesintamilnadu.com
has found favour for providing not only one’s aggregate
marks for medicine and engineering, but also the number of students
who have the same aggregate and those who have higher.
This time it has loaded a programme based on the 2007 Tamil
Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) cut-off mark and rank of each
college in the State, affiliated to the Anna University.
According to R.V.Srivatsan, Director of Adroit
Techno Solutions, Chennai, who has hosted the site,
the candidate should key in his aggregate mark, course interest
and reservation category.
The site comes up with colleges he has a chance to get admission.
Informed choice
“Though this is not the present position, it will definitely
give a fairly good idea as to where the candidate stands,”
he says.
The result is expected to vary slightly because of the increase
in number of colleges (roughly 25 – 30), number of colleges
that have got converted into universities, increase in number
of courses, and also the sub-classification of BC into BCC and
BCM. Besides these, the aggregate marks that the students have
obtained in 2008 are slightly on the higher side, what with
nine candidates tied at 200.
“It can still prove to be very useful by taking into account
plus or minus five to the candidate’s aggregate.
This will save time and narrow down the options the candidate
will have to give at the time of counselling,” adds Mr.
Srivatsan.
Since every choice is computer generated at the counselling,
the aggregate mark analysis based on the 2007 TNEA list would
be a fool-proof pointer for engineering aspirants.
Looking up the website can surely be part of the preparation
process for students to reduce their anxiety on the D-day.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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