Tamil Nadu Paramedical Counselling 2023 – Eligibility Criteria for All Paramedical Courses
The candidate should be a citizen of India.
NATIVITY
- Candidates should be Native of Tamil Nadu
- The candidates, who claim their Nativity as Tamil Nadu should submit their nativity certificate issued by the competent Revenue authority of Government of Tamil Nadu.
- Candidates belonging to other States cannot claim nativity of Tamil Nadu.
- Permanent Residence Certificate in lieu of Nativity Certificate will not be accepted.
- Nativity Certificate submitted with application alone will be accepted and sending the Nativity Certificate separately will not be entertained.
- Candidates who are Native of Tamil Nadu and who have studied 6TH standard to 12TH standard in schools of Tamil Nadu should also produce Nativity Certificate and Community Certificate issued by the competent authority. The Community Certificate of either one of the parent obtained from the competent Revenue Authority in Tamil Nadu should be enclosed to claim Communal Reservation. If candidates do not submit the above mentioned certificates and even if he/she had studied Standard 6th to 12th std completely in Tamil Nadu, the candidate will be considered under Open Category only.
- Candidates who are Native of Tamil Nadu, but studied from 6th Standard to 12th standard either partly or completely in one or more states should upload their Nativity Certificate issued by the competent revenue authority of Tamil Nadu. If the candidate claims communal reservation, they should upload candidate’s community certificate issued by the competent revenue authority of Tamil Nadu and should upload the community certificate of either one of the parent or guardian obtained from the competent Revenue Authority of Tamil Nadu for claim Communal Reservation. If the candidates do not submit the above mentioned certificate, then the candidate’s application will be summarily rejected.
- Other State candidates who are not native of Tamil Nadu but Studied 6th standard to 12th standard in Tamil Nadu will be considered under Open Category (OC) candidate and have to produce their Bonafide Certificate from school in which he/she studied from std 6th to 12thstd
- Community Certificate of the candidates or either one of his/her parents obtained from other states will not consider for communal reservation.
AGE LIMIT
Candidates should have completed 17 years of age as on 31st December 2021. (Those who were born few days later can also be included, i.e. maximum 15 days).
a) For All Courses (Except B.Sc Nursing)
Candidates should have completed 17 years of age as on 31st December 2023
b) B.Sc Nursing
Candidates should have completed 17 years of age as on 31st December 2023.
- Candidates belonging to OC / BC / BCM / MBC/DNC should not have completed 30 years as on 31st December 2023.
- For SC / SCA / ST candidates should not have completed 35 years as on 31st December 2023.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Candidates should have passed in all the subjects of the qualifying Examination of the Higher Secondary Course conducted by the Tamil Nadu State Board or any other Equivalent Board in the following group of subjects with minimum eligible marks.
B.Pharm, BASLP & B.Optom
| B.Pharm, BASLP & B.Optom | English as one of the subject
a) Physics, Chemistry, Biology with any other subject (or) |
For All Courses (Except B.Pharm, BASLP & B.Optom)
| For All Courses (Except B.Pharm, BASLP & B.Optom) | English as one of the subject
(a) Physics, Chemistry, Biology with any other subject. (or) |
Minimum Eligibility Marks
| COURSE | OC | BC/BCM/ MBC&DNC | SC/SCA/ST |
B.PHARM & BASLP |
Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects not less than 40 % aggregate marks. | Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects not less than 40 % aggregate marks. | Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects |
B.sc Nursing |
Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects not less than 45 % aggregate marks. | Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects not less than 40 % aggregate marks. | Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects not less than 40 % aggregate marks. |
For All Courses (Except B.PHARM, BASLP & B.sc Nursing) |
Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects | Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects | Passed in Higher Secondary Course with aforesaid subjects |
NOTE
- Candidates who have passed any other equivalent examinations other than Tamil Nadu State Board/CBSE with same group of subjects mentioned above should produce the Eligibility Certificate from the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Guindy, Chennai-32. before joining the course.
- In the case of candidates who have furnished the mark sheets of the qualifying examination, only in GRADES, the minimum marks of the grades alone will be taken into consideration while determining the marks in the select Science subjects of Physics, Chemistry and Biology or Botany and Zoology.
- Candidates who have mark sheets with GRADES should obtain a certified statement of marks from the examination authority and upload the statement of marks for indicating the actual marks secured.
- Normalization method will be adopted for calculating the minimum eligibility mark for the candidates who have passed any other equivalent examination.
VOCATIONAL STREAM / PRIVATE CANDIDATES
Candidates who have passed Higher Secondary Course in vocational stream are not eligible to apply to Paramedical Degree Courses.