Hello Aspirant,

According to the tag you have mentioned in the question your query is for NTSE, so in NTSE there are two stages, first is stage 1 which is conducted at state level by the competent state authorities and second one is stage 2 which is conducted on national level by NCERT. Now coming to your question, to qualify the stage 1 you need to secure the qualifying marks at least but merely qualifying stage 1 does not ensures your shortlisting for stage 2 because for shortlisting of candidates for stage 2 every state has it's fixed quota and only that number of top candidates will be shortlisted from every state for stage 2 of NTSE.

As you belongs to Tamil Nadu according to your profile so to qualify NTSE stage 1, one needs to secure only qualifying marks which is given below for Tamil Nadu NTSE 2021 stage 1 :

But for being shortlisted you need to secure the cut-off marks which is not yet announced by the competent state authorities but as per the previous year's analysis it is expected as below :-

Cut off marks depends upon various factors such as the difficulty level of stage 1 exam, Tamil Nadu State quota, number of students appeared in the stage 1 exam, last year's NTSE Tamil Nadu cutoff and so on.

You can also check out complete details about the expected cut-offs for NTSE Tamil Nadu 2021 from the link given below :-

https://school.careers360.com/articles/ntse-tamil-nadu-cutoff

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!