13 candidates score full cut-off of 200 as Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions merit list is out

Merit list has 1,39,033 candidates eligible for counselling

A total of 13 candidates, including five girls, have scored the full cut-off of 200 marks this year in the merit list published by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions committee on Tuesday.

As many as 1,39,033 candidates are eligible for counselling — including 1,36,973 candidates in the academic stream and 2,060 in the vocational stream. Among them were 12 transgender persons. This year, 440 colleges with 1,51,870 seats are participating in the single-window counselling that will be held in five rounds.

Among the top 13 is a candidate from Karnataka. Since he is a native of Tamil Nadu, he has become eligible for counselling, TNEA officials said. The lowest cut-off is 77.5 marks. Of the 1,74,930 registered applications for which random numbers were generated, only 1,42,323 were verified, and 3,290 candidates were found ineligible.