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before you register · 2026 season

Are you eligible for TCS NQT? Sixty seconds, six criteria.

Marks, backlogs, gap years, passing year: answer six questions and get a per-criterion verdict with honest fix-it guidance. Also checks Infosys, Wipro Elite NTH and Accenture ASE, each against its own documented rules.

question 01 / 07
the drive

Which company are you checking?

Rules below are the ones documented in PA's eligibility briefs — each verdict links its sources.

where these rules come from

Each company's criteria are extracted from PapersAdda's dedicated eligibility briefs, which aggregate drive notifications and candidate reports. Where a brief itself hedges, this checker says "confirm on the official posting" instead of inventing a cutoff. The official drive notification is always final.

Straight answers

Does TCS accept 6.0 CGPA as equivalent to 60% for NQT?
Yes. On a 10-point scale TCS treats 6.0 CGPA as 60%, provided your university uses that equivalence. If your university publishes its own conversion formula, TCS applies that; when none exists, the standard 9.5 multiplier is used.
I had backlogs earlier but cleared them all. Am I eligible for TCS NQT?
Yes. TCS's restriction is on ACTIVE (standing) backlogs at the time of joining. Cleared historical backlogs, even multiple ones, do not disqualify you, as long as your final marksheet and degree certificate show every subject cleared.
Is a 2023 pass-out eligible for TCS NQT 2026?
Generally no. Most 2026 drives restrict eligibility to 2024, 2025 and 2026 batches. Special off-campus drives occasionally open the window wider, but do not plan around an exception; apply to other companies in parallel.
My percentage is 59.8%. Will rounding save me?
No. The documented cutoffs are applied as printed on your marksheet; automated filters do not round 59.8% up to 60%. Only your own university's consolidated-marksheet rounding (if it officially prints 60%) counts.
Are Infosys and Wipro eligibility rules the same as TCS?
No, and this catches people every season. Infosys raised its bar to 65% across 10th, 12th and graduation from the 2024 batch onward, while TCS, Wipro Elite NTH and Accenture stay at 60%/6.0 CGPA. Wipro and Accenture also document tighter 1-year gap ceilings versus TCS's 2 years. The checker applies each company's own documented rules.