TANCET

• Completed for 2026 cycle
• Conducted (2026 cycle)
• Counselling/supplementary rounds ongoing
• Declared
• Seat allotment ongoing

• Anna University sets the TANCET exam pattern and syllabus
• Candidates preparing with the help of TANCET pattern and syllabus PDF tend to score better than the competition. | TANCET 2026 Exam Pattern | Find TANCET 2026 exam pattern for MBA test in the table below: | TANCET Test Structure Elements | Details | Duration of test | 2 hours | Examination mode | Offline | Number of sections | Five (5) sections, namely, | - Business Situations | - Quantitative Ability | - Reading Comprehension | - Data Sufficiency | - English Usage | Total marks | 100 | Marks assigned to each section | 20 | Negative marks | -1/4 marks for each incorrect response | Exam medium | English | TANCET 2026 Syllabus | Candid

• Anna University sets the TANCET exam pattern and syllabus
• Candidates preparing with the help of TANCET pattern and syllabus PDF tend to score better than the competition. | TANCET 2026 Exam Pattern | Find TANCET 2026 exam pattern for MBA test in the table below: | TANCET Test Structure Elements | Details | Duration of test | 2 hours | Examination mode | Offline | Number of sections | Five (5) sections, namely, | - Business Situations | - Quantitative Ability | - Reading Comprehension | - Data Sufficiency | - English Usage | Total marks | 100 | Marks assigned to each section | 20 | Negative marks | -1/4 marks for each incorrect response | Exam medium | English | TANCET 2026 Syllabus | Candid

• 3,837 MBA seats filled in the 2026 general counselling round
• TANCET counselling is centrally conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Tamil Nadu at tn-mbamca.com for admission to government, government-aided, self-financing and stand-alone TN institutes
• Counselling registration fee: INR 800 for unreserved-category candidates, INR 400 for SC/SCA/ST category candidates from Tamil Nadu (paid online)
• Eligibility: TANCET-qualified with a bachelor's degree scoring at least 50% aggregate (45% for reserved categories) and a Tamil Nadu Nativity Certificate
• Process: online registration, choice filling (course + college preference), a rank list (with published tie-break rules: higher pre-final-year academic average first, then older candidate by DOB), a tentative allotment with 4 response options (Accept & Join / Accept & Upward / Decline & Upward / Decline & Quit), then a confirmed provisional allotment
• Reservation: Open Competition 31%, Backward Classes 26.5%, Most Backward Class & Denotified Communities 20%, Scheduled Caste 15%, SC-Arunthathiyar 3%, Backward Class Muslims 3.5%, Scheduled Tribes 1% (plus 5% for candidates with disabilities, applied over the above)
• After the main round, DTE runs a Supplementary Counselling (offline, for seats left vacant) and a further SCA-to-SC conversion round for seats where SCA-category seats stay vacant while SC-category seats are filled
• Documents required: Class 10/12 mark sheets, all-semester graduation mark sheets, provisional/degree certificate, community certificate, TANCET scorecard and hall ticket, and (where applicable) disability board certificate, nativity e-certificate, or Sri Lankan Tamil refugee certificate

• TANCET 2026 category-wise and college-wise cutoffs are published by Anna University alongside each round's seat-allotment results (available as downloadable PDFs on tancet.annauniv.edu and via TANCET's own 'Cut Off' news coverage), rather than as a single consolidated table on this overview page
• Cutoffs vary by college, branch/course, category and counselling round, and change with every allotment round

Campus-wise and branch-wise cut-off figures are being added. Check the official website for the latest.

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