Students’ Speak: Things you must do soon after appearing for TANCET 2020

By: Swarna Pavithra M

After the TANCET exam, before doing anything else, it is important to take ample rest to regain that energy, to do anything else efficiently. 

Once Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET 2020) is over, you are likely to feel relieved. However, you would also be anticipating how the result would be.

But aren’t the results miles away yet? What until then? Here are the answers to your questions.

Continuous revisions, mock tests, sleepless nights, early morning revisions, periodic follow-ups should have drained your energy completely by now. After the TANCET exam, before doing anything else, it is important to take ample rest to regain that energy, to do anything else efficiently.

The next step would be to shortlist colleges. Selecting the right college is a tedious process. You are ought to be well prepared with all your background checks about the colleges you wish to get admitted to. It is also important to know the colleges which you are likely to get for your expected percentile. To be on the safer side, have a list of four to five colleges of your choice, to choose in counselling if you don’t get your college of first preference. The percentile acceptance range of the previous year for various colleges will be available online. An official copy of all the percentile ranges of all the colleges accepting TANCET will be published in the official website of Anna University also. But that might take some time.

Meanwhile, you can decide on the colleges you would like to get admitted to, with the help of ranking systems like NIRF, NAAC Accreditation and also student reviews from more various forums. Be sure to be ready with your list of colleges you prefer in the order of preference before counselling commences.

Apart from this, you can utilize this time to orient yourselves towards management studies. Management studies, apart from dealing with business and corporates, is largely dependent on your inner self too. Take time to know yourself. Browse through the skills required for a business management student, discover your strengths and weaknesses and identify the spheres you have to work on. The lifestyle of a management student is pretty hectic. It is more based on practical and experimental learning than theory-based lectures and seminars.

Hence, make optimum use of this time to hone your skills and be ready to make the best use of your MBA programme.

About the Author:

Swarna Pavithra is a budding writer and an aspiring management student pursuing her Masters in Business Administration in Thiagarajar School of Management.