There is no update officially for SRM diploma admissions (lateral admissions) on their website. Lateral admissions after diploma used to happen before but currently there is no update officially.

You can refer to the official site here .

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In order to appear for SRM college you have to fulfill the eligibility criteria of the exam first.

You can check the eligibility criteria below from the given below link

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/srmjeee-eligibility-criteria

You can check the cut off of the college from the given below link

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/srmjeee-cutoff

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To get admission in Amrita you will have to crack AEEE exam and for SRM, you will have to crack SRMJEE. Also, the application window for both of them is open so you can apply there. To know more about the same in details, you can go through the below

Both the colleges VIT and SRM comes in top private colleges for engineering program.

According to Careers 360, VIT Vellore and SRM Chennai both have AAAA+ rating which means outstanding.

Ratings are provided on the basis of Placements, Faculty, Cut-offs of national / state level Entrance exams, Accreditation and Reward

For SRMJEEE, the universiity has different eligibility criteria for different campuses. For admission to SRM Kattankulathur campus, you need 60% aggregate marks in class 12th/equivalent exam with (Physics, Chemistry, Mathemetaics), 50% aggregate for admission into Ramapuram, Vadapalani and Ghaziabad (NCR) campuses, 75% for Amaravati and 50% for Sonepet campus.  

Candidates

The exam level of srmjee is not much difficult like jee mains and jee advance. It is a easy to normal level exam like bitsat and viteee. You only need to focus on topic that is asked in srmjee exam and follow the paper pattern of srmjee and by doing

Residential place doesnot matter so you can write any of the place you want.

It is completely 11th and 12 syllabus of CBSE Board just prepare your 11th and 12th syllabus.

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