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Friday, July 02, 2010
If your score is low, then the chance of landing an engineering seat stands diminished as there are more of your kind in the fray this year
Chennai: This year, during engineering counselling, it is not going to be about how many marks you have scored. It is going to be about how many have scored the same marks as you.
Though this may not be a problem for BE/BTech aspirants who have scored very high cut-off marks, as their numbers are fewer compared to last year, the race for entry into engineering colleges will be really tough for candidates with lower cut-off scores when they are called for the second phase of the single-window counselling beginning on July 21.
An extensive analysis of data relating to applicants for the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010) and their cut-off scores reveals that compared to the position last year, fewer candidates will be vying for seats at cut-off scores between 200 and 150. Below this score, competition will be extremely intense with at least 700 candidates tied at every 0.25 mark level.
“The difference will be visible on July 5 when the single window counselling for the academic stream candidates, who constitute an overwhelming majority of the aspirants, will begin. While last year 43 aspirants had scored a cut-off mark of 200, this year only 29 candidates are placed at that level. Likewise, while 1,492 candidates were tied at the cut-off score of 195 in 2009, now only 1,359 aspirants have scored this mark,” an analyst told The Times of India.
The practical implication of the reduced competition at higher cut-off score levels will be that students will get an opportunity to join top-end and good engineering colleges at a mark lesser than the previous year.
For instance last year, in the open competition (OC) category, only candidates with a cut-off score of 200 could get into the most preferred Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) branch in the prestigious Anna University’s College of Engineering, Guindy. The maximum rank at which an OC category student entered the course in the college was 41. In contrast this year, since only 29 aspirants have scored 200, at least a dozen more OC candidates with a cutoff score of 199.75 can get the same seat.
This trend continues at every cut-off point till 150 marks. “If you take the cutoff score of 170, last year as many as 46,366 candidates had scored above this point. But this year, there are only 43,854 aspirants who have scored 170 and above. Whereas in 2009, at the same rank level (43,854) the cut-off was higher at 171.25,” the analyst explained.
In contrast, as the cut-off decreases, more number of candidates are in the race compared to last year. “In 2009, for instance, only 80,824 candidates had scored a cut-off of 145 and above, whereas this year the number of such aspirants is higher at 81,872. Last year, a student with this rank of 81,872 had had a lower cut-off score of 143.25,” he said.
Not just that more number of students are tied at the same mark in each level. For instance, last year 736 candidates had secured a cut-off score of 118 but now the number of students tied at this score has rose to 1,316.
Thus candidates with a cut-off score of 150 and below will find the going tough even to enter into lower rung engineering colleges.
For those with low cut-off scores, RACE GETS TOUGHER
If your score is low, then the chance of landing an engineering seat stands diminished as there are more of your kind in the fray this year
An extensive analysis of data relating to applicants for the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010) and their cut-off scores reveals that compared to the position last year, fewer candidates will be vying for seats at cut-off scores between 200 and 150. Below this score, competition will be extremely intense with at least 700 candidates tied at every 0.25 mark level.
“The difference will be visible on July 5 when the single window counselling for the academic stream candidates, who constitute an overwhelming majority of the aspirants, will begin. While last year 43 aspirants had scored a cut-off mark of 200, this year only 29 candidates are placed at that level. Likewise, while 1,492 candidates were tied at the cut-off score of 195 in 2009, now only 1,359 aspirants have scored this mark,” an analyst told The Times of India.
The practical implication of the reduced competition at higher cut-off score levels will be that students will get an opportunity to join top-end and good engineering colleges at a mark lesser than the previous year.
For instance last year, in the open competition (OC) category, only candidates with a cut-off score of 200 could get into the most preferred Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) branch in the prestigious Anna University’s College of Engineering, Guindy. The maximum rank at which an OC category student entered the course in the college was 41. In contrast this year, since only 29 aspirants have scored 200, at least a dozen more OC candidates with a cutoff score of 199.75 can get the same seat.
This trend continues at every cut-off point till 150 marks. “If you take the cutoff score of 170, last year as many as 46,366 candidates had scored above this point. But this year, there are only 43,854 aspirants who have scored 170 and above. Whereas in 2009, at the same rank level (43,854) the cut-off was higher at 171.25,” the analyst explained.
In contrast, as the cut-off decreases, more number of candidates are in the race compared to last year. “In 2009, for instance, only 80,824 candidates had scored a cut-off of 145 and above, whereas this year the number of such aspirants is higher at 81,872. Last year, a student with this rank of 81,872 had had a lower cut-off score of 143.25,” he said.
Not just that more number of students are tied at the same mark in each level. For instance, last year 736 candidates had secured a cut-off score of 118 but now the number of students tied at this score has rose to 1,316.
Thus candidates with a cut-off score of 150 and below will find the going tough even to enter into lower rung engineering colleges.
Courtesy: Times of India
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