TNEA Counselling 2025: Dates, Choice Filling, Seat Allotment, Reporting

The Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE), Chennai will hold the TNEA 2025 counselling for admission of the 10+2 passed candidates to BE/BTech, BE (Sandwich) and MTech Computer Science and Engineering (Integrated) courses offered by the Government and Government Aided Engineering Colleges, University Departments and Constituent Colleges of Anna University, and Annamalai University. Check complete details of the TNEA counselling process in this article.

TNEA Counselling 2025

TNEA Counselling 2025: The candidates who register for Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) and complete the document verification successfully, can participate in the TNEA counselling 2025. Only those candidates whose names appear in the TNEA rank list 2025, can participate in the counselling. The TNEA general counselling 2025 will start in July 2025. The counselling process will include online choice filling by the candidates, allotment of seats, seat allotment confirmation, downloading the provisional allotment letter and reporting to the allotted institute. To participate in the TNEA 2025 counselling process, candidates must visit the official website, tneaonine.org, and log in with their registered email ID and password. Under the login, candidates can access all the counselling related activities like choice filling, seat allotment results, etc.

The TNEA counselling process is completely online and is a centralised process. The counselling starts with the choice filling process where the registered candidates submit their choices of colleges and courses for admission in order of preference. DoTE allots seats to the candidates based on their preferred options, TNEA ranks and category. Check all details regarding TNEA counselling 2025 like how to fill choices, the seat allotment process, how to confirm seats, reporting to the allotted institute, and more on this page.

Also Read: TNEA counselling eligibility criteria 2025

TNEA Counselling 2025 Link

Candidates can check the TNEA 2025 counselling link below:

• TNEA 2025 choice filling: will be available here
• TNEA 2025 seat allotment result: will be available here

TNEA Counselling Process 2025

After the certificate verification process is complete, candidates can move forward to the counselling phase. The counselling will be conducted online in multiple rounds according to the established schedule. Applicants will be organized based on their ranks, and each group will participate in the counselling according to their assigned turn. To take part in the counselling process, candidates must log in to the TNEA portal using their user ID and password for various activities during each round. Each round of TNEA counselling consists of the following four steps:

1. Choice Filling: Candidates must list their preferred colleges and branches in order of preference. The sequence of choices is crucial, and candidates can select as many choices as they wish.
2. Seat Allotment: Seats will be allocated based on the order of the candidates' choices, their rank, community, and the availability of seats.
3. Confirmation of Allotment: Candidates who are allotted seats must confirm their acceptance within the specified timeframe.
4. Download Provisional Allotment and Report to College/TFC: After confirming their seats, candidates need to download the provisional allotment letter and then visit the allotted college or TFC to complete the admission process.

TNEA counselling process is represented as a flowchart below:

TNEA 2025 Counselling Process

TNEA Counselling 2025 Choice Filling

TNEA counselling process starts with choice filling. The candidates whose names appear in the TNEA rank list 2025 can login to the TNEA official website to participate in the choice filling process.

The steps to fill choices in TNEA counselling 2025 are given below:

Step 1 - Login: Candidates must login with their registered email ID and password. Under the login candidates can check various details and click on the link that says “open choice filling page”.

Step 2 - Read instructions: A set of instructions will appear on the screen, please read them carefully and abide by them.

Step 3 - Fill choices: After reading the instructions, candidates can fill college name, college code, branch name, district and category. Candidates can fill as many choices of colleges and courses as they want.

Step 4 - Arrange/add the choices: Once the choices are filled, candidates can check the list of choices they have selected. Candidates can change the choices, add or change the order of the choices if they want to. The choice list will display the college code, choice order, college name, branch name, and seat availability. To change the order of choices, candidates can simply drag the rows. The changes made to the list will be autosaved and candidates are not required to save the changes manually. 

Step 5 - Locking and downloading the choice list: Note that candidates have to complete the choice filling as per the deadline. Candidates will be allowed to lock the choices only three times. Choice lock OTP will be sent to the registered mobile number of the candidates each time the candidate locks the choice. Once the candidates are satisfied with their choices and their order, they can lock the choices and doenload the list.

TNEA Counselling 2025 Choice Filling Instructions

Check some important instructions about the TNEA choice filling process 2025 below:

1. There will be no limit on the number of courses you can select, please make as many choices as possible to get the better allotment.
2. You can't select a course from a college that has zero seats available in your community and in the OC category, For SCA candidates, you are allowed to select a choice from the SC community just in case there is no seat available in the OC or SCA community for the respective course.
3. Selected choices can be rearranged according to your preference from the reorder list, please make sure your preference of choices is in the order you need this order is important while we allot the seat
4. College list can be filtered by College name, College code, Branch, District or Category.
5. Once your choice selections are finalised, please make sure you lock the choice selection. When you click on lack choice, you will receive an OTP (one-time password) to your registered mobile number and email, confirm the OTP and lock the choice. Once choices are locked you can not modify them, so make sure you lock them after you complete the choice selection and reorder them according to your preferences. If you miss locking the choices, they will be auto-locked at the end of the timeline provided by DoTE.
6. Each selection of course and reorder is auto-saved, no explicit save is required.
7. Choice lock OTP will be sent only a maximum of 3 times, kindly request candidates not to play around with the lock choice screen. If you exceed 3 times you will not be able to lock the choice, it will be auto-locked at the end of the deadline given by us.
8. When the download PDF is clicked, DoTE will fetch the choice selection and choice lock status from the server to get the latest copy, there may be a chance that the server copy might not match your browser, this might be due to network issues that the server was not updated with the latest version, in such cases request you to reload the page and fix the selection and selection order. If you need help reach out to nearby TFC.

TNEA 2025 Seat Allotment Result

After the choice filling window closes, DoTE will allot seats to the candidates based on the choices of the candidates, their TNEA rank and their category. The seat allotment result will be displayed on the official website under the respective logins of the candidates. 

The initial seat allotment will be tentative. Candidates can check the below given details in the tentative seat allotment result:

1. Name of the candidate
2. Community
3. General rank
4. Community rank
5. Application ID
6. Allotted community
7. Branch name
8. College name

The candidates who will get the tentative allotment will have to confirm the seat. They can select the below options against the allotted seat:

1. Accept and Join
2. Accept and Upward
3. Decline and Upward
4. Decline and Move to the Next Round
5. Decline and Quit
6. Upward or Move to the Next Round

TNEA Counselling 2025: Seat Confirmation

When a candidate receives a seat allocation in the TNEA 2025 counselling process, they have several options to confirm their seat. They must choose one of the following options within the specified time frame. Failure to confirm will result in their move to the next round. The available options are:

TNEA 2025 Seat Allotment

1. Accept and Join: If the candidate is satisfied with the allocated seat, they should retrieve the provisional allotment order and report to the college on the designated date for admission. If the candidate fails to report, the seat will be forfeited, and they will not be eligible for subsequent rounds.
2. Accept and Upward: If the candidate is happy with the seat but prefers to wait for a potentially better option in the upcoming upward movement, they can choose this option. For example, if they are allocated their 5th choice, they may wait for their 1st through 4th choices. If no better options are available, they will retain their previously allotted seat.
3. Decline and Upward: If the candidate is not satisfied with the allocated seat and wants to decline it while waiting for a better option in the upward movement, they can select this choice. If a preferred seat does not become available, they will be moved to the next round.
4. Decline and Move to Next Round: If the candidate is dissatisfied with the seat and prefers not to wait for upward movement, they can decline the seat and opt to participate in the next round of counselling.
5. Decline and Quit: If the candidate does not want the allotted seat and does not wish to participate in any further rounds, they can select this option.
6. Upward or Move to Next Round: If no seat is allotted based on the candidate’s choices, this option will be available. Candidates can opt for upward movement, and if a seat becomes available during this process, it will be allotted. If no seat is available, the candidate will proceed to the next round.

TNEA 2025 Counselling Cutoff

TNEA cut-off 2024 is released by the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE). The authority releases TNEA 2024 community-wise cutoffs for all the candidates. TNEA cut-off score is the minimum mark that candidates have to secure to be eligible for admission to BTech courses. Eligible candidates for TNEA 2024 are called seat allotment based on TNEA 2024 cut-off marks and availability of seats in the TNEA participating colleges. The TNEA 2024 cut-off admission scores will also be released after each round of counselling on the official website. TNEA cutoffs are different for all the categories depending on various exam factors. 

TNEA 2025 Counselling Provisional Admission Order Download

The candidates who confirm the tentative allotment can proceed to download the provisional allotment order. The candidates need to download the provisional allotment order by logging into their TNEA counselling candidate portal using the TNEA registered email ID and password.

TNEA Counselling 2024 Reporting for Admission

If a candidate accepts their assigned seat and chooses the "Accept and Upward" option, they will be given a provisional allocation order. They must visit the nearest TFC, complete the payment of the tuition fees, and submit their original certificates to secure their current seat. Failure to report or pay the fees will be interpreted as a lack of willingness to join, leading to the cancellation of their allocation. Consequently, they will forfeit their allocated seat and will not be considered for further rounds of TNEA 2025 counselling.

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