How Tamil Nadu engineering aspirants are missing out on better seats

Chennai | Monday | 15th July, 2019

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By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: Think twice before you key in your list of preferred colleges in the TN Engineering Admissions (TNEA) online counselling 2019 as many students have missed out on better seats owing to ignorance of how the process works.aThere are two major reasons why students lose better seats, said TNEA-2019 secretary T Purushothaman. Many fail to opt for seats in the Open Category (OC), thinking that they are reserved for forward communities. That’s when I learned that he had listed it as his top preference and got the seat through upward mobility,” the candidate said. However, since many of them put better colleges below and list a college where they will definitely get a seat as their top preference, they miss out on better seats, said Purushothaman. Had the boy put out more choices, he would have definitely got the seat..