my cuttoff is 177.5 am I eligible for 1st round in tnea counselling 2021 for BE CSE am I bc community

Greetings dear aspitant

TNEA conducts it's counseling process in many rounds and they are divided so that it's easy for the students to participate in counseling process. With marks of 177.5, you will be eligible for Round 2 counseling as Round 2 is for candidates with aggregate marks 177.75 - 150 and rank 9873 - 30926. Here, as you belong to BC Category, you can easily secure a CSE seat in many of the top colleges.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/tnea-cutoff

You can have a detailed look at the TNEA cutoff trends of the previous few years from the above given link.

Hope I've cleared all your doubts!!

All the best for your future career