Reservation:

There is a reservation criteria for the TNEA. Authority gives reservation under 7 categories:

Category of Candidates	Percentage of TNEA Reservation
General	31%
Backward Classes (BC)	26%
Backward Class Muslim	3.5%
Most Backward Class & Denotified Communities	20%
Scheduled Castes	15%
Scheduled Caste (Arunthathiyars)	3%
Scheduled Tribes	1%

Candidates seeking reservation under any category need to provide the category certificate from the issuing authority.

TNEA will also have special reservation which is for the candidates of the state of Tamil Nadu.

This Special Reservation Includes:

Category	Number of Seats
	University Departments and Colleges	Govt. & Govt. Aided Colleges	SelfFinancing Colleges	TOTAL
Son’s / Daughter’s of Ex-Servicemen	8	34	108	150
Persons with benchmark disabilities
Blindness and low vision	1%
Deaf and hard hearing	1%
Locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy	1%
Autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness	1%
Multiple disabilities from amongst persons under clauses (a) to (d) including deaf-blindness in the programme identified for each disabilities	1%
	University Departments	University Colleges / Govt. / Aided and Self Financing Colleges
Eminent Sports Persons	12	488		500