State Exam & Career Cockpit · Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu Exam & Career Cockpit

2 recruitment nodes ·1 admission nodes ·Every fact linked to an official file

Every major Tamil Nadu recruitment route we could verify on one screen: the Combined Civil Services Examination-IV (Group IV) of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) — 6,574 posts in the 2026 notification — and the Common Recruitment of the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) for Grade II Police Constables, Jail Warders and Firemen. Each page is built only from the official notification, and every fact links back to that file.

Tamil is the gate in both: Group IV opens with a 150-mark Tamil eligibility-cum-scoring part that you must clear before the rest of your paper is even marked, and TNUSRB has a qualifying Tamil test. 20% of posts go to Persons Studied in Tamil Medium (PSTM), and only Tamil Nadu's own communities count as SC / ST / BC / MBC. For engineering, TNEA has no entrance test at all: the rank comes from a Class 12 cut-off out of 200, and 7.5% of seats are kept for government-school students.

Government recruitment Admissions

Recruitment nodes: TNPSC Group IV · TNUSRB CR
Admission node: TNEA (cut-off out of 200)
Watch: Group IV exam 10 Jan 2027 · Tamil test + 20% PSTM
Last checked: 19 Oct 2026

Civil recruitment & uniformed services

Government recruitment exams

Village Administrative Officer, Junior Assistant, Typist and other Group IV posts through TNPSC, and Grade II Police Constable, Jail Warder and Fireman posts through TNUSRB.

Academic admissions

Admission routes after Class 12

TNEA 2026: the Directorate of Technical Education's single-window B.E. / B.Tech admission, ranked on Class 12 Maths, Physics and Chemistry.

Directorate of Technical Education, Tamil Nadu TNEA 2026 — Engineering Admission on Class 12 Marks Tamil Nadu's single-window B.E. / B.Tech admission. There is no entrance test: your rank comes from Class 12 Maths (100) + Physics (50) + Chemistry (50) = a cut-off out of 200, then online counselling in rounds. 7.5% of seats go to government-school students, whose fees the government pays. No entrance testCut-off = M + P/2 + C/2 (out of 200)Fee ₹500 · SC/SCA/ST ₹250

B.E. / B.Tech counselling

Who allots engineering seats in Tamil Nadu

TNEA is Tamil Nadu's single-window engineering counselling. There is no entrance test: rank comes from Class 12 marks. Below: who runs it, how seats are reserved, and the last Open Competition seat at three government institutions in round 1.

Counselling body

Run by Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE), Chennai — Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2026) [1]
Merit basis Class 12 cut-off out of 200 (Maths 100 + Physics 50 + Chemistry 50)
Official portal tneaonline.org (opens in a new tab)

How seats are allotted

Rank comes only from Class 12 marks: Maths out of 100 plus Physics and Chemistry out of 50 each, a cut-off out of 200. Seats are then allotted in online counselling rounds. [1]
69% communal reservation for Tamil Nadu natives: BC 26.5%, BC Muslim 3.5%, MBC & DNC 20%, SC 15%, SC Arunthathiyar 3%, ST 1%. The remaining 31% is Open Competition, where reserved candidates also compete. [1]
7.5% of the seats in every community share, General included, go to students who studied Classes 6–12 in state government schools. [1]
Communal reservation needs a permanent community certificate issued in Tamil Nadu. Students who studied Classes VIII–XII in Tamil Nadu need no nativity certificate. Children of central-government employees serving in the state apply under Open Competition only. [1]

Three government institutions: B.E. Computer Science and Engineering, TNEA 2026 round 1

Three government institutions: B.E. Computer Science and Engineering, TNEA 2026 round 1
Institute	Seat row compared	Closing rank
College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) — Anna University, Chennai	CSE (college code 1) · OC seat	2,912 (cut-off 193.5) [2]
Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) — Anna University, Chromepet	CSE (college code 4) · OC seat	3,027 (cut-off 193.5) [2]
Government College of Technology (GCT), Coimbatore	CSE (college code 2005) · OC seat	13,882 (cut-off 184.0) [2]

TNEA general rank and Class 12 cut-off of the last candidate given an Open Competition seat in that branch in round 1. Margdarshan worked these out from DoTE's allotment list; DoTE does not print them as a closing rank. Community seats close further out and are listed in the same file.

Sources for this block

DoTE Tamil Nadu — TNEA 2026 Information Brochure (opens in a new tab) cut-off formula, reservation, 7.5% government-school quota, nativity · Last checked 19 Oct 2026
DoTE Tamil Nadu — TNEA 2026 Round 1 General Academic Provisional Allotment List (opens in a new tab) rank, cut-off mark, community, college code, branch and allotted category of every round-1 allotment · Last checked 23 Oct 2026

At a glance

Every Tamil Nadu node side by side

Fees, age limits and dates are from the latest notice of each body. They change every cycle, so always open the current notice before applying.

Tamil Nadu exams and admission routes compared
Exam / route	Conducted by	Key facts
TNPSC Group IV (CCSE-IV) 2026	Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission	Posts 6,574 (tentative) Apply by 5 Nov 2026, 11:59 pm Exam 10 Jan 2027 · OMR Tamil part 40% needed to be marked
TNUSRB Common Recruitment 2025 — Police Constable, Jail Warder, Fireman	Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board	Posts 3,644 + 21 ST shortfall Status 18,689 called for CV / PMT / ET / PET Age (1 Jul 2025) 18 – 26 (OC) Merit 100 marks (written 70)
TNEA 2026 — Engineering Admission on Class 12 Marks	Directorate of Technical Education, Tamil Nadu	Entrance test None — Class 12 marks Cut-off Maths 100 + Phy 50 + Chem 50 = 200 Govt-school quota 7.5% · fees paid by govt Registration fee ₹500 · SC/SCA/ST ₹250

Official portals

Where to apply and check notices

TNPSC notifications are on tnpsc.gov.in (applications at tnpscexams.in); TNUSRB on tnusrb.tn.gov.in; TNEA on tneaonline.org and dte.tn.gov.in. Only use these official addresses.

How this cockpit is built: each exam page is written only from that board's own advertisement or admission notice (linked in its “Where these facts come from” block, with the date we read it). Coaching and news sites are not used. Spotted something out of date? Email margdarshan07support10@gmail.com.