Medical counselling to start today

As many as 190 students have a cut-off of 199 marks and above. Last year, there were 278 candidates in this category. Surprisingly, the cut-off for ST students has drastically decreased to 181.50 marks this year from 185.75 last academic year. 

The Director of Medical Education sources said the marginal drop in cut-off was due to a fewer number of centum scorers in Physics. A statement from the directorate said the counselling for special categories, including persons with special abilities, sports quota and others, would be held from Monday and general counselling would start from Tuesday. 

The counselling of Tamil Nadu Medical Admission 2016 will be conducted in offline mode in two rounds. Candidates have to appear for the counselling in person as per the schedule allotted for their rank. As per official announcements on tnhealth. org website, the merit list is available to check online from June 17. Tamil Nadu MBBS and BDS 2016 counselling will be conducted at Government Multispecialty Hospital, Omandurar Estate, Chennai. 

Admission authority will send SMS regarding counselling to the candidate’s registered email id. It must be noted that if the candidate is absent for the counselling called for, then he/she cannot attend the subsequent round of Tamil Nadu Medical 2016 counselling. 

Sources added that, 3,266 number of candidates from 2014-15 academic year had also applied for counselling and they too had marginal chances of getting seats in medical colleges this year.