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Admission Policy for Admission to B.pharmacy Degree Course

The Government of Tamil Nadu has issued orders vide G.O. (Ms.) No.87. Health and Family Welfare Department, dated 16.03.2007 for apportionment of seats between Government and Management of Unaided institutions for admission to the B.Pharmacy Degree Course as follows:

Course	Government	Management
B.Pharmacy	65% on Intake	35% on Intake

Accordingly, the admissions to the B.Pharmacy degree course are made under two category:

Government Quota
Management Quota

Procedure for Admissions to Government Quota:

General:

The Government of Tamil Nadu has formed a Selection Committee headed by a Secretary to do all admission process under the Directorate of Medical Education for all Paramedical Courses under the Government Quota.
The Secretary, Selection Committee, Directorate of Medical Education will issue a notification stating all the terms and conditions applicable for selection of students to the under graduate paramedical courses.

Eligibility:

Candidate should be a Citizen of India.

Nativity:

Candidate should be a Native of Tamil Nadu.
Candidates who have studied VIII to XII standard in schools of Tamil Nadu need not
Candidates who are native of Tamil Nadu but studied from VIII to XII Std either partly or
The Certificate of Nativity in Tamil Nadu should be issued by the competent authority only in the specified format available in the application form and supported by a copy of Passport/ Ration Card / Birth Certificate. If the copy of the supporting document is not produced, then the application form will be rejected. Nativity Certificate submitted later will be summarily rejected.
Applications without proper Nativity Certificate will not be considered.
Permanent Residence Certificate will not be accepted.
Candidates who are native of Tamil Nadu alone will be considered for communal reservations

Age Limit:

Candidates should have completed 17 years of age and maximum age is 30 years as on 31st December 2017. For SC / SCA / ST candidates, maximum age is raised to 35 years. Evidence should be produced.

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 a single sitting in the following group of subjects with minimum eligible marks.

Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. (or)
Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Mathematics with any other subject.

A failure in examination / reappearance / first appearance in compartment in one or more subjects will be treated as an attempt.

Minimum Eligibility Marks:

Pharm degree course:

For OC / BC / BCM / MBC / DNC Candidates : Pass in Higher Secondary Course with Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Botany and Zoology or Mathematics not less than 40 % aggregate marks.
For SC / SCA / ST Candidates: Pass in Higher Secondary Course with Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Botany and Zoology (or) Mathematics.

Normalization of Marks:

As per the Tamil Nadu Act No 3 of 2007, dt 05.03.2007 and G.O(Ms) No.77 HE(J2) Dept.dt:05.04.2007, the marks obtained by the students in the relevant subjects in the qualifying examination conducted by various Boards or Authority shall be equated with the marks obtained by the students in the same subjects in the qualifying examination conducted by the State Board (Government of Tamil Nadu) by adopting the method of normalization.

Explanation:

Under the method of normalization, the highest mark obtained by the students of various Boards in each subject will be equated to the highest mark obtained by the students of State Board in that subject and the relative marks obtained by other students in that subject will be determined accordingly.

Illustration:

If the highest marks secured by the student of State Board in Physics is 100 and the highest mark secured by a student of any other Board in the same subject is 90, both the highest marks will be considered to be equal to 100. If a student of the other Board secures 60 marks in Physics when the first mark in Physics in the same Board is 90, then 60 marks will be considered to be equal to 66.66 marks as arrived at below:
100 x 60 / 90 = 66.66%

After normalization of marks in the relevant subjects in the qualifying examination conducted by different Boards, the qualified students of different Boards will be merged into a common merit list. In case of candidates who have qualified from National Boards such as CBSE and ISCE, the highest marks obtained by the candidates at the National Level alone will be taken into consideration for normalization.

Method of Selection and Admission:

Ranking will be made on merit on the basis of marks obtained by the eligible candidates in the prescribed science subjects in the qualifying examinations reduced to the base of 200 marks. The marks obtained through different Boards will be taken into account after normalization.

CALCULATION

Weighted Total Marks for a maximum : 200
Percentage in Biology (after normalization) : (X)
Percentage in Physics and Chemistry - Taken Together (after normalization) : (Y)
Percentage in Botany and Zoology - Taken Together (after normalization) : (Z)
Percentage in Mathematics (after normalization) : (W)
Weighted total marks for a maximum of 200. Either (X+Y) OR (Z+Y) OR (W+Y) The percentage and the weighted total should be accurate to two decimals.

Ranking of the candidates will be done based on the total marks obtained in the Science Subjects after normalization of marks computed to a maximum of 200.
Only the marks obtained in the Science subjects in the Higher Secondary Course qualifying examination as a whole in the first appearance will alone be taken into consideration for the allotment of seats to the candidates and the improvement marks in Higher Secondary Course examination of any year will not be considered. Also the marks obtained through part by part appearance in Higher Secondary Course examination will not be considered including for natives of Tamil Nadu who have passed any other equivalent examination from other Boards/States.
If claiming of improvement marks for selection to Para Medical Courses is detected at any point of time, it will lead to cancellation of selection and removal of his/her name from rank list.

Any application submitted without the latest attested photo copy of the first appearance mark sheet of the qualifying examination will summarily be rejected.

Note:

In respect of the candidates who have taken the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics, the marks obtained in Physics, Chemistry and Biology will be taken into account for arriving the General merit list and for those candidates who have taken Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics along with other subjects (other than Biology, Botany and Zoology) the marks obtained in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics will be taken into account for arriving the merit list for B. Pharmacy and B. ASLP courses only.

Counselling Procedure- Single Window System:

The selection will be made on merit basis and by Counselling applying the rule of reservation by the Government of Tamil Nadu as follows:

Open Competition             –       31%
Backward Class                  –       30%
Most Back ward Class       –       20%
Scheduled Caste                –       18%
Scheduled Tribe                –       1%

Within 30% reservation for BC, 3.5% reservation will be provided for BC Muslims and 16% of seats out of 18% quota earmarked to Scheduled Caste shall be allocated to the Arunthathiyar Community.

BC, BCM, MBC / DNC, SC, SCA & ST candidates are eligible for Selection under Open Competition as per merit in addition to the reservation made for them.

Any remaining unfilled seats for want of adequate number of eligible candidates belonging to SCA community shall be filled by candidates belonging to SC community other than Arunthathiyar as per merit and vice versa. (G.O.(Ms).No.55 P & AR Department dated 08.04.2010)
Any remaining reserved seats in ST Quota for want of adequate number of eligible candidates belonging to ST community shall be allotted to candidates belonging to SC Community as per merit. (G.O.(Ms).No.77 Health & Family Welfare Department (MCA1) dated 24.02.2011)
Any remaining unfilled seats in BCM Community for want of adequate number of eligible candidates after exhausting the merit list shall be filled up on merit basis by candidates belonging to BC community without exceeding the quota for BC community as a whole(G.O.Ms.No.30/H&FW Dept(MCA1)dated 18.01.2012)
Even after filling up of the required seats reserved for Arunthathiyars on preferential basis, if more number of qualified Arunthathiyars are available, such excess number of candidates of Arunthathiyars shall be entitled to compete with the Scheduled Castes other than Arunthathiyars in the inter-se merit among them (As per G.O.Ms.No.65 dated 27.07.2009 of P &AR(K) Department).

Duration of the Course:

B.Pharmacy - 04 years

Tuition Fee:

S. No.	Course	Tuition Fee for Self Financing Colleges (Per Annum)
01	B.Pharmacy	Rs.43,000/-

Procedure for Admissions to Management Quota:

As per the G.O. mentioned in paragraph.1 the management is entitled to select and admit 35% on intake. As per the current intake of 60, the management can admit 21 seats under the Management Quota.

Eligibility for Admission:

The Eligibility for admission to B.Pharmacy degree course is as prescribed by the Director of Medical Education, Government of Tamil Nadu.

Age Limit:

Candidates should have completed 17 years of age and maximum age is 30 years as on 31st December 2017. For SC / SCA / ST candidates, maximum age is raised to 35 years. Evidence should be produced.

Educational Qualifications:

Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. (or)
Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Mathematics with any other subject.

A failure in examination / reappearance / first appearance in compartment in one or more subjects will be treated as an attempt.

Minimum Eligibility Marks:

B.Pharm degree course:
For OC / BC / BCM / MBC / DNC Candidates : Pass in Higher Secondary Course with Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Botany and Zoology or Mathematics not less than 40% aggregate marks.

For SC / SCA / ST Candidates: Pass in Higher Secondary Course with Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Botany and Zoology (or) Mathematics.

Method of Selection And Admission:

Application for Admission:

The Tamil Nadu Private Professional Colleges Association – Health Sciences will invite applications for admission to B.Pharmacy degree course under Management Quota. The candidates seeking admission should submit prescribed application to the Association with all details and copies of certificates.

Method of Selection:

After the receipt of applications up to a specified time, the applications will be scrutinized and based on the aggregate marks obtained in the eligible subjects, a merit list will be prepared by the association.

All the eligible candidates will be issued a score card with rank. The candidates can apply to the colleges of their interest with their score card for admissions. Based on the application and score the candidates will be called for admission.

Verification and Submission of Original Certificates:

The Original Certificates will be verified in accordance with information furnished in the application, and their originals will be retained in the college till the registration / end of the course.

Admissions under Management Quota against Lapsed seats from Government Quota:

Generally, the Selection Committee for the Government Quota would allot 65% of intake through Single window counseling. After the allotment, few candidates will not join within the specified cut-off date. Under the above circumstances, the Management is entitled to admit the vacancies as Government Lapsed Seats. The wait listed candidates under the Management Quota will be called for admissions.