The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : It will be a tough battle for B.E, B.Tech. seats too

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Thursday, Jun 16, 2005

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Tamil Nadu

It will be a tough battle for B.E, B.Tech. seats too

K. Ramachandran

Over 2,000 students have a score between 197 and 200

CHENNAI: As in the case of admissions to MBBS, it is going to be a tight squeeze this time for admissions to B.E/B.Tech. courses in prestigious colleges in Tamil Nadu this year.

Over 2,100 students will wage a tough battle for getting into the top-notch colleges, including the Anna University's constituent institutions such as the College of Engineering, Guindy; A.C. College of Technology and the Madras Institute of Technology, or for that sake the highly sought-after self-financing colleges.

An analysis of the Plus Two marks secured by top rankers shows that at least 2,111 students have a score between 197 and 200 out of 200 in the engineering subjects.

The marks in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry are used for computing the scores of candidates for B.E/B.Tech admissions this year (as the TNPCEE has been scrapped).

In all, 129 students have logged the maximum score of 200/200 in the engineering branch this year, and another 129 have got a score of 199.75; 171 have secured 199.50; 224 have got 199.25 and 203 have got 199.00.

After doing an analysis of the first few thousand ranks, Jayaprakash Gandhi, a career analyst of Salem, says that on an average of 150-180 students fall within each score band of 0.25 marks.

"Last year, there was a wide variation of 18 marks between the first and last rankers in Anna University colleges, but this year it has come down to just three marks.

This shows the kind of tremendous pressure and intense competition which students will face this year, even if they are the cream of the 5.6 lakh students who took the Plus Two examinations," says Mr. Gandhi.

However, he says, engineering aspirants may have some solace: More than 60 students have got 200 out of 200 in the four key subjects — Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. And of the first 2,100, about 180 to 200 students may opt for MBBS or BDS, or a very tiny number may opt for BITS-Pilani or will have also written AIEEE.

The top 2000-odd students will fill the highly sought-after ECE, Computer Science or Information Technology courses in the top-notch colleges, meaning that anyone who has just lost four or five marks in the engineering branch will have to settle for other branches or seek the same branch in the rest of the institutions.

The entire analysis, he notes, is based on the students' scores in Plus Two examinations, including that of improvement candidates. But, it does not include those who wrote only the TNPCEE this year (for improving last year's entrance scores alone).

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