CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee will generate 10-digit random numbers for more than one lakh candidates at 4pm on Wednesday.
Random numbers would be used to break the tie when many candidates score the same marks while ranking.
"This year, 1,60,834 candidates registered for counselling and 1,31,436 of them have paid the fees for counselling. So far, 1,14,206 candidates have uploaded their documents," officials said.
As per the tentative schedule, the rank list for the candidates would be released on September 7 and the online counselling for general quota will be held from September 17 to October 6.