TNEA Counselling Procedure

Steps in TNEA Online Counseling Process are as follows
1. Online Application Registration and Payment of registration fees
2. Random Number Generation (by TNEA Authority)
3. Uploading the copy of original certificates.
4. Certificates Verification at designated TFC (by TNEA Authority).
5. Rank Publication (by TNEA Authority)
6. Online Payment of Initial Deposit
7.Online Choice filling
8. Publication of Tentative Allotment on a notified date (by TNEA Authority)
9. Confirmation of tentative allotment option by the candidates
10. Provisional allotment of institution and branch (by TNEA Authority)
11. Finally reporting to the allotted Institution on the specified date.
The procedure for each round of counselling is as follows:
1) Publication of eligible applicants: The list of eligible applicants for a particular round will be published in the TNEA portal.
2) Payment: Applicants should pay an initial deposit through online mode of payment (Net Banking /Credit Card / Debit Card / Demand Draft ) by using the TNEA portal, according to the payment schedule of the round.
3) Adding Choices: After successful completion of payment, those applicants in the current round can add choices to their list (in order of preference) to be considered for allotment by using the TNEA portal.
4) Locking Choices: After adding their choices, applicants should lock their choices. If applicants fail to lock their choices within the stipulated time, the system itself will lock the choices.
5) Tentative Allotment: After the locking of choices by the applicants, the system will, tentatively, allot the choice based on rank and the applicant’s order of preferences. The same can be viewed the following day after locking the choices by the applicants through their login.
6) Submission of Allotment Options: After the tentative allotment, the applicant shall either confirm or decline or reject the allotment.