The Directorate of Medical Education and Research, Tamil Nadu has announced the schedule for the state National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) UG counselling 2023 for admission to MBBS, BDS programs. The choice-filling and locking process will begin from tomorrow, July 25. Candidates will be able to fill in their choices on the official website, tnmedicalselection.net. The last date for registration, payment, and choice-filling is July 31.
The seat allotment result will be declared on August 3. Candidates will be able to download the provisional allotment order between August 4 to August 8 and the last date of joining is August 8.
Candidates will have to pay Rs 500 for the government quota and Rs 1,000 for the management quota. Students will also have to submit a security deposit of Rs 30,000 for government quota seats in self-financed colleges and state private universities and Rs 1 lakh for the management quota seats.
Explaining the choice-filling process, DMER said, “For example, if a candidate has applied for both Government and management quota he will have choices for both Government as well as Management quota. The candidates are encouraged to analyse all the choices available and fill their choices in order of their preference.”
DMER advised candidates to check their choices and the order of preferences before locking as they will not be able to edit the choices after locking them. Moreover, if a candidate does not lock their choices themselves before the last date, their choices will be automatically locked.
The directorate further informed that for round 2, candidates will not be allowed to take admission in a category which they have not opted in round 1.
Once allotted seats, candidates will have to download the allotment order and report to the colleges with the required documents, the verification of documents will be done in the colleges only. They will also have to produce a self-declaration form that their admission will be cancelled if any discrepancies are found during the admission process.
