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| Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Counselling for UG courses begins
Coimbatore: Counselling for admission to undergraduate courses
under the single window system began at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural
University on Monday. It will go on till Saturday.
“Nearly 3,600 candidates had applied to the university
to pursue an undergraduate degree in any of the twelve disciplines.
The university shortlisted candidates based on the cut off mark
based on the aggregate of marks obtained in Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry and Biology in the Plus Two examinations,” K.
Vanangamudi, Dean (Agriculture), said.
Those with cut off marks from 198.25 to 180.50 (out of 200)
were called for the counselling on the first day.
As many as 150 candidates attended the first session.
Out of the 150, 76 got admitted into the course of their choice.
The topper R. Vishnu Varadhan (194.25) from Dharapuram got admission
in the B. Tech. Biotechnology course.
The second topper R. Boominathan (193.75) from Madurai selected
the B.Sc. Agriculture course.
The most favoured courses seemed to be the B. Tech. courses
in Biotechnology (20 seats), Food Process Engineering (13 seats),
Energy and Environmental Engineering (12 seats), besides the
conventional B.Sc. Agriculture which had 22 takers.
First phase of counselling for general category will continue
till June 28; while the second phase will be held on July 7.
Counselling for special reservations like ex-servicemen, candidates
with disability, sports quota, etc., will be held on the forenoon
of June 30. Counselling for vocational stream will be held on
the afternoon of June 30.
Registration for the new academic year and classes will begin
on July 23.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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