CSAB 2025: Supernumerary Round Registration & Choice Filling (Open), Cutoffs

Check the various stages involved in the supernumerary counselling process below.

CSAB Supernumerary Counselling Process

CSAB Supernumerary Online Registration 2025

All eligible candidates must register online through the CSAB portal at csab.nic.in according with the provided schedule. Please note that prior registration in JoSAA or any CSAB Special Round is not valid for the CSAB 2025 Supernumerary Round.

• Eligible candidates are permitted to register only once on the CSAB Supernumerary portal.
• Candidates should log in using their JEE (Main) 2025 Application Number and the Password from JEE (Main) 2025 or the updated Password from JEE Advanced, JoSAA 2025, or CSAB Special Round, whichever is most recent.

For candidates whose documents were not verified in the NIT+ System during JoSAA or CSAB Special Rounds, the following updates can be made during online registration:

• Only Indian Nationals are eligible for the CSAB Supernumerary Round.
• Gender can be updated from any to any.
• The State of Eligibility (the location where Class XII or its equivalent was first taken) can be updated from any to any.

CSAB Supernumerary Choice Filling and Locking 2025

All successfully registered candidates must submit new choices for academic programs.

• Choices previously filled during JoSAA or any CSAB Special Rounds are considered null and void. Therefore, candidates must carefully fill in and frequently save their new choices during the registration period.
• Candidates should lock their choices after finalizing the list. If choices are not manually locked by the candidate, they will be automatically locked according to the schedule, and these choices will be used for seat allocation.
• A printout of the locked choices can be obtained only after the choices have been locked, either by the candidate or automatically by the system.

CSAB 2025 Supernumerary Counselling Seat Allocation Result

After the choices are filled by the candidates, the seat allotment is done. Seat allocation will be purely based on JEE Main ranks of the candidates and their categories with taking the number of available seats into consideration 

CSAB Supernumerary Document Uploading and SSAF Payment

All candidates who are allocated a seat in the Supernumerary Round are required to upload the following documents on the CSAB 2025 Supernumerary Round portal:

1. Class X Certificate or Birth Certificate
2. Class XII Mark sheet 
3. Category certificate for SC/ST/OBC-NCL/GEN-EWS candidates 
4. UDID Card or/and PwD certificate(s) for PwD candidates
5. State of Eligibility Proof
6. Medical Certificate

CSAB Supernumerary Document Verification 2025

Once the candidates complete the online document upload and SSAF payment, their document verification will be done online. While verifying the documents, the document verification officer may raise queries which the candidates have to resolve as per the deadline.

CSAB Supernumerary Counselling 2025 Physical Reporting at Allotted Institute 

After completion of the online document verification, candidates have to physically report to the allotted college. Any remaining fees and formalities have to be completed during physical reporting.

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CSAB is Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB). It conducts national-level counselling based on JEE Main scores for admission to vacant seats left after JoSAA counselling last round, called the CSAB special counselling. Other than the CSAB special counselling, there are two more counselling categories under CSAB. The details of all three types of CSAB counselling can be checked below:

CSAB Special Round: The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) holds the special CSAB counselling to allocate the unfilled seats of the NIT+ System after the last JoSAA round. Candidates desirous of participating in the CSAB special rounds are required to do a fresh registration.

CSAB NEUT Round: This round of CSAB counselling is held for the allocation of seats to candidates of North-Eastern states and Union Territories only. The seats allocated in the CAB NEUT round include the reserved seats under the government of India scheme of “Reservation of seats in Degree Level Technical Courses for States/UTs lacking such facilities in the AICTE-approved institutions”. Seats are allotted in Engineering/Technology/Architecture/Pharmacy courses conducted at degree-level technical institutions approved by AICTE, Universities for North-Eastern (NE) States and Union Territories (UTs).

CSAB Supernumerary Round: This counselling round is for admission to supernumerary seats in NIT Calicut, NIT Durgapur, and SVNIT Surat. The candidates belonging to the Union Territories of Andaman & Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli are eligible CSAB 2025 Supernumerary round.

Check CSAB 2025 counselling highlights in the table below:

The eligibility for the CSAB special round, NEUT and supernumerary round varies. A detailed explanation of eligibility for all three rounds has been given below:

CSAB Special Counselling Eligibility 2025

The following types of candidates can participate in CSAB counselling:

• Type 1: candidates who have not registered for JoSAA counselling and meet all the required eligibility criteria.
• Type 2: Candidates who participated in JoSAA counselling but were not allotted any seat.
• Type 3: The candidates who participated in JoSAA, even got a seat, but their seat got cancelled due to non-payment of the seat acceptance fee (SAF).
• Type 4: The candidates who have exited the JoSAA counselling can also participate in CSAB.
• Type 5: Candidates who participated in JoSAA 2025 and were allotted seats in IITs, but:
  • Their seats were cancelled after document verification, or
  • They withdrew from their allotted seats, or
  • They accepted admission

Type 6: Candidates who participated in JoSAA, paid SAF 7 PAF and got admission in NIT+ system, can also participate in CSAB.

Type 7: Candidates who were allotted seat in JoSAA but later withdrew their seats are also eligible for CSAB.

Type 8: Candidates who participated in JoSAA and were allotted seats but were disqualified due to unsuccessful document verification.

Type 9: Candidates who got a seat in the NIT+ system and paid the SAF but their admission was cancelled due to non-payment of PAF, can also participate in CSAB.

CSAB NEUT Counselling Eligibility 2025

The CSAB eligibility for NEUT counselling is as follows:

JEE Main rank: Candidates must secure a rank in JEE (Main) 2025 Paper-1 for BE/BTech programs or must secure a rank in JEE (Main) 2025 Paper-2 for BArch programs, as applicable.

Year of passing class 12: Candidates must have passed the Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination in the years 2023 or 2024 or 2025.

Academic criteria: The candidate should have secured at least 45% marks in the 12th class examination, conducted by the respective Boards. For Architecture, the candidate should have passed the 10+2 examination with at least 50% aggregate marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and at least 50% marks in aggregate of the 10+2 level examination or passed the 10+3 Diploma Examination with Mathematics as a compulsory subject with at least 50% marks in aggregate. For SC/ST/PwD candidates, a relaxation of 5% of marks obtained in the qualifying examination for admission shall be considered.

Date of birth: As prescribed in the Information Bulletin and JEE Main 2025.

State of domicile: Students belonging to 08 North East States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura) and 05 Union Territories (Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep and Ladakh) are eligible.

CSAB Supernumerary Counselling Eligibility 2025

The following types of candidates are eligible for the CSAB supernumerary counselling:

• All candidates, who were eligible for JoSAA-2025 / CSAB-2025 Special Rounds as per JEE (Main) 2025 ranks and having their State Code of Eligibility as the UTs of Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

AND

• Candidates who do not have a valid allocated seat in the NIT+ system, at the end of all rounds of JoSAA/CSAB-2025.

The counselling process involves the following stages:

CSAB Special Counselling Process

CSAB 2025 Special Counselling Online Registration

All eligible candidates have to register for CSAB. The earlier registrations done in JoSAA counselling are not valid for the CSAB special counselling.

CSAB 2025 Special Counselling Payment of SREF (IAF-I + SRPF) 

After registration, all the candidates must pay the Special Round Enrolment Fee using Net Banking / Debit card / Credit card or State Bank of India e-challan. The details of fees have been given on this page.

CSAB Special Counselling Choice Filling and Locking 2025

The candidates must fill in fresh choices during the CSAB special round choice-filling process. The previously filled Choices during JoSAA 2025 rounds (if any) stand NULL AND VOID and hence will NOT be considered for allotment in CSAB Special Rounds. Candidates are advised to carefully fill out their FRESH CHOICES and save them frequently during the process.

 All the programs of the NIT+ system for which they are eligible will be displayed to them, irrespective of vacancy status. The vacant seat matrix displayed to the candidates is tentative. Some additional vacant seats may be available at a later stage of counselling. Therefore, candidates are advised to fill in their choices of seats irrespective of the vacancy status. Candidates MUST “lock” their choices on or before the last day of choice filling. If the candidates do NOT lock their choices, their last saved choices will be locked automatically upon reaching the deadline for choice filling.

CSAB Special Round 1

The special round 1 will include the following

• Seat Allotment
• Choose Willingness Option - Freeze/Slode/Float/Surrender/Withdraw
• Document Uploading
• Payment of Institute Admission Fee (IAF)-II
• Online Reporting and Document Verification

CSAB Special Round 2

The special round 2 will have the following stages:

• Seat Allotment
• Document Uploading
• Payment of Institute Admission Fee (IAF)-II
• Online Reporting and Document Verification
• Physical Reporting at the Allotted Institute

CSAB Counselling 2025 Special Round Fee Details

Check below the details of various fee that has to be paid during the CSAB special round counselling 2025:

The CSAB counselling registrations take place separately for all three types of counselling - special, NEUT and supernumerary. Candidates have to follow the registration link on the official website when the counselling starts for the respective counselling rounds they want to participate in as per their eligibility. The registration process for all three counselling is online and takes place at csab.nic.in. The registration process starts with logging in using the JEE Main 2025 application number and password. The next steps of the process vary based on the type of counselling.

CSAB 2025 Registration Fee

There is no fee to register for any CSAB counselling round. However, fees must be paid after registration and seat allotment as required and as per the schedule of CSAB counselling.

The CSAB counselling fees that have to be paid at various stages of each CSAB counselling are given below:

CSAB Special Counselling Fees

After registration, all the candidates are required to pay the Special Round Enrollment Fee (SREF) using Net Banking / Debit card / Credit card or State Bank of India e-challan. The SREF for each type of candidate mentioned in the special counselling eligibility criteria is given below:

CSAB NEUT Counselling Fees

Candidates have to pay the Seat Acceptance Fee (SAF) of INR 5,000 to confirm their allotted seats. This fee is to be paid as per the deadline and after each seat allotment round.

CSAB Supernumerary Counselling Fees

Candidates have to pay the Supernumerary Seat Acceptance Fee (SSAF) which includes a non-refundable CSAB processing charge of INR 5,000. This fee is to be paid as per the deadline and after each seat allotment round. The SSAF is given below:

• The SSAF amount is INR 45,000 for GEN/GEN-EWS/OBC-NCL candidates and INR 25,000 for SC/ST/PwD candidates who got the allotment the first time.
• The candidates who paid any fee during JoSAA 2025 and/or CSAB 2025 Special Rounds shall be adjusted towards CSAB-2025 SSAF and the balance amount should be paid.