KEAM 2026: Exam Date, Eligibility, Registration, Previous Year Question Papers, Syllabus, Mock Test

Candidates can check the selection process for KEAM 2026 below:

1. Apply for KEAM 2026: All candidates have to fill KEAM application form, even if they are applying for medical, agriculture, forestry, veterinary, fisheries, architecture, and pharmacy courses
2. Download admit card: The candidates applying for the engineering courses must download the entrance test admit card.
3. KEAM exam: Engineering aspirants have to appear in KEAM 2026 CBT exam.
4. Check answer key and result: The result of the KEAM 2026 engineering entrance exam and answer keys will be displayed on the official website.
5. Submit plus two marks: The candidates who qualify the KEAM exam must submit their class 12 marks.
6. KEAM ranks: The candidates who submit their plus two scores are included in the KEAM rank list. Based on the ranks of the candidates in KEAM, the seats are allotted via the KEAM counselling process.
7. CAP: All candidates whose names appear on the KEAM merit list must appear for the centralised admission process (CAP) for seat allotment in the colleges.

KEAM Selection Process 2026

The KEAM hall ticket is issued to all registered candidates over the official website - cee.kerala.gov.in. To download the admit card, candidates have to visit the KEAM 2026 candidate login window and enter the application number and password. It is mandatory to bring the KEAM 2026 admit card to the exam centre, without which they will not be able to sit for the entrance examination.

The admit card is issued online only. By no other means, CEE is going to send the admit card to the candidates. Hence, candidates have to download the admit card responsibly. The venue of the KEAM examination and timetable will be given on the admit card. The candidates whose applications are rejected will not get the KEAM admit card, and a rejection memo will be issued to them under the KEAM candidates' login.

Note that, defects, if any, in the KEAM admit card should be rectified within the dates specified in the notification about the download of admit cards.

KEAM Exam Date 2026 - Tentative

The KEAM 2026 Entrance Examination will be conducted as a Computer-Based Test (CBT) at selected venues in different sessions as per the following schedule:

KEAM 2026 Exam Centres

Note that the KEAM 2026 exam will be held across the centres located in:

• Selected venues in all Districts in Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur, Kasaragod)
• Mumbai
• New Delhi
• Dubai

No request for a change in the KEAM exam centre once allotted will be entertained. The allotted exam centre will be intimated to the candidates via the KEAM 2026 hall ticket only.

CEE Kerala releases the KEAM application form 2026 in online mode. The KEAM 2026 application form can be filled out and submitted within the given timelines. However, the window to upload the candidate's photograph, signature, personal details and payment of the application fee will be available after registration. Below are the simple steps that the candidates should follow when applying for KEAM registration 2026. Candidates should complete all the steps for filling KEAM application form before the last date of application submission. 

Registration: In this step, candidates have to register online on the official website of CEE Kerala - cee.kerala.gov.in. Candidates have to provide the basic details and create an application number and password to create the KEAM candidate login. The KEAM login is to be accessed at various stages of the admission process.

Filling KEAM application form: Candidates have to provide their personal, educational, income, and reservation details in the application.

Uploading of images: Next, they have to upload scanned images of photographs, signatures and documents with the given dimensions. Photograph, signature and left thumb impression should be 150 pixels and 100 pixels in height with 10-30 kb.

‼️ To avail of category/reservation benefits, fee concession, etc. in KEAM 2026, the eligible candidates should upload relevant certificates along with the Online application form. For this, the candidates should obtain the following Certificates from the Revenue authorities concerned. Read Notice by CEE

Paying the application fee: The application fee for all candidates will be as follows:

Note:

• Candidates choosing 'Dubai' as the Examination Centre will have to remit an additional fee of INR 15,000 by way of online payment. Such candidates should give a local contact number, if available, in their application in the appropriate place. 

Taking a printout of the application form: After payment, candidates have to take a printout of the application form. Candidates must also note that proforma (s) should also be printed along with the application. Print out the application form; it should not be sent to the CEE office.

Candidates looking forward to appearing in KEAM 2026 can check below the KEAM exam analysis from the previous year. The KEAM 2026 exam analysis will be made available after the exam is held on each day and shift.

KEAM previous year exam analysis:

CEE releases the KEAM answer keys for all days of the exam on the official website of KEAM. The answer keys are made available separately for all shifts of the engineering and pharmacy exams. The KEAM answer keys are released in PDF format, and candidates do not need any login details to access the provisional answer key.

KEAM 2026 Engineering Answer Key PDFs by CEE

KEAM 2026 Pharmacy Answer Key PDFs by CEE:

Challenging the answer keys: Candidates can submit the KEAM answer key 2026 challenge, if any, regarding the answer keys and questions through the KEAM 2026 candidate portal. By selecting the applicable links 'Answer Key Challenge (Engineering), Answer Key Challenge (Pharmacy)' in the Candidate Portal, candidates can enter the details with regard to the complaints in the answer key/question.

If the challenges are accepted, the challenge fee against the questions will be refunded. Necessary modifications will be made in the published answer keys, and the marks for the deleted questions, if any, shall be distributed. The final answer key with all changes shall be uploaded on the official website, and candidates can check it. Based on the final answer key, marks will be calculated for the KEAM result.

KEAM 2026 result is first announced as KEAM scores. The candidates who take the exam are issued the KEAM 2026 scorecards that have their KEAM percentile scores. The candidates who qualify KEAM are then asked to submit their class 12 marks for the preparation of the KEAM rank lists.  To qualify in the KEAM 2026 Engineering and BPharm Entrance Examination and be eligible for the respective rank list, candidates must secure a minimum normalised score of 10. The KEAM 2026 scorecard can be accessed by logging into the KEAM 2026 candidate portal using the application number and password.

KAEM Qualifying Cutoff Marks

Candidates must fulfil the following criteria to pass the KEAM exam:

KEAM 2026 Rank Lists

After the candidates submit their plus two scores, the KEAM rank lists are published. KEAM rank lists are published by the CEE separately for all courses - Engineering Courses, Architecture Course, Medical and Medical Allied courses (except BAMS), BAMS Course, and BPharm Course.

KEAM 2026 Rank List for Engineering

KEAM Engineering and Pharmacy Entrance Examinations 2026 are conducted in Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode; hence, it is required to conduct the examinations on multiple days. Each session will have a separate set of questions. To ensure that candidates are neither benefited nor disadvantaged due to the examinations in multiple sessions, the Normalisation procedure is adopted. The total score of the Entrance Examination out of 300 is normalised. The procedure for Normalisation has been approved by the Normalisation Committee. The Index Mark after Normalisation will be 300. 

• An equal weightage of 50:50 shall be given to the normalised score obtained in the KEAM Engineering exam and the grade/marks obtained in the final year of the qualifying examination for Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, put together, after effecting the standardisation procedure.
• In case the candidate has not studied Chemistry, the marks obtained in Computer Science shall be considered. In case the candidate has not studied Chemistry and Computer Science, the marks obtained in Biotechnology shall be considered. In case the candidate has not studied Chemistry, Computer Science and Biotechnology, the marks obtained in Biology shall be considered.
• The final year marks of the qualifying examination of each subject, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry/Computer Science/Biotechnology/and Biology of the students who have passed the subject, received from the respective Boards, shall be transformed out of 100. The marks of the three subjects shall be computed out of 300 after effecting standardisation in each subject.
• The normalised score obtained by the candidate in the Engineering Entrance Examination shall be computed out of 300 and added to the total standardized marks of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry/Computer Science/Biotechnology/Biology as the case may be, of the final year of the Qualifying Examination, computed out of 300, both corrected to four places of decimals. The rank list for Engineering Courses shall be prepared based on the total marks obtained out of an Index mark of 600, computed as above.

KEAM 2026 Rank List for BPharm

The rank list for Admission to the BPharm Course will be prepared based on index marks calculated as follows:

• The raw score of Chemistry obtained from the Kerala Engineering Entrance Examination will be multiplied by 2.25 and added to the Physics raw score obtained from the Kerala Engineering Entrance Examination.
• The sum so obtained will be multiplied by a factor of 2/3 to calculate the index mark. The so obtained index score will be normalised (as per the normalisation procedure for ranking the candidates for the BPharm course. The maximum index score will be 300. 

KEAM Rank List 2026 for Medical & Allied and Ayurveda

To qualify and thereby become eligible to be included in the KEAM 2026 rank list for MBBS/BDS/BAMS/BHMS/BSMS/BUMS courses, it shall be necessary for a candidate to obtain a minimum 50th percentile in NEET (UG) 2026. However, for SC/ST/SEBC, the minimum marks shall be 40th percentile. For candidates in the Persons with Disability category, the minimum marks shall be 45th percentile for the unreserved category and 40th percentile for the SC/ST/SEBC category.

KEAM Rank List for Architecture

The rank list shall be prepared by giving equal weightage to the score obtained in the National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) and to the marks/grades obtained in the Qualifying Examination by the candidate (As per guidelines of the Council of Architecture, India).

After the announcement of KEAM results, candidates whose names appear in the rank list released by CEE can participate in the KEAM counselling process. KEAM counselling process is held in three rounds along with one mop-up round. Through KEAM counselling, candidates are allotted seats based on their preferences and the availability of seats in a particular college and course. KEAM 2026 counselling is called the centralised admission process.

The counselling process includes:

• KEAM 2026 option registration
• Trial / provisional allotment
• Final KEAM allotment of seats
• Payment of admission fees at the allotted colleges and document verification

The Centralised Allotment Process will be done through the Single Window System (SWS) to give allotments to the various courses and colleges under the State's Engineering/ Architecture/ Pharmacy/Medical streams. This is a system of ‘Allotments through Online Submission of Options’. The options are the willingness of a candidate who qualified with a rank in the rank lists of KEAM-2026 to join a course-college combination prioritised as per his/her aspiration and desire.

Seats in Government/Aided/KAU/KVASU/KUFOS/government cost-sharing/ Private Self Financing/Autonomous Colleges to be allotted by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations are included in the CAP. They are done as per the provisions of allotment.

KEAM Opening and Closing Ranks

The Office of the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations (CEE) Kerala releases the KEAM cutoff for all phases of counselling. The cut-off marks are presented as the last rank round-wise and category-wise. After each round of counselling, the KEAM cutoff list displays the closing ranks of various participating colleges.

Check below the KEAM opening and closing ranks:

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KEAM Participating Colleges

Check the list below for KEAM 2026 participating colleges:

Government/Aided Engineering Colleges Accepting KEAM Scores: Via the KEAM 2026 counselling process, seats will be allotted in the following Government/Aided Engineering Colleges:

• Engineering College Under Kerala Agricultural University
• Engineering Colleges Under Kerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University
• Engineering Colleges Under Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies
• Government Controlled/University Controlled Self-financing Engineering Colleges
• Private Self-financing Engineering Colleges under the Kerala Catholic Engineering College Management Association (KCECMA)
• Private Self-financing Engineering Colleges under Kerala Self Financing Engineering College Management Association (KSFECMA)
• Private Self-financing Architecture Colleges under the Architecture College Management Association (ACMA) VIII 9. Government Pharmacy Colleges

⇒ KEAM 2026 participating colleges complete list.

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