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Karnataka Common Entrance Test 2026 ( KCET )

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Vikrant Shukla
Updated on Jan 30, 2026 12:46 IST

By Vikrant Shukla, Deputy Manager

KCET 2025 Latest News and Updates: The exam body, Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has currently completed the round 3 counselling process. Candidates looking for engineering admissions offered by participating institutes could fill the KCET 2025 application form at kea.kar.nic.in. The application process of KCET 2025 comprises registration, filling out the forms, uploading documents, and payment of the fee. KEA has revised the KCET 2025 exam date. KEA will now conduct the KCET exam 2025 on April 18 & 19 in offline mode. The KCET 2025 Kannada language exam was conducted on April 20.

The exam authority released the KCET 2025 demo application form video link at the official website. Candidates can go through the KCET 2025 application form demo to understand the registration process. KEA released the KCET answer key 2025 a few days after the conclusion of the exam. Applicants will be given a chance to raise objections in the KCET 2025 answer key. After reviewing all the objections, KEA released the final answer key along with the KCET result 2025. Shortlisted candidates based on results will be called for the KCET counselling 2025. For KCET latest news and updates 2025, applicants can refer to the article below.

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KCET exam is not compulsory for NEET UG exam. However, KCET registration or UGCET registration is mandatory for candidates who want to participate in the Karnataka NEET Counselling. Candidates need to clear the NEET exam and should be KCET/ UGCET registered to take admissions to medical/ dental/ AYU

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Virajita Shukla

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Answered 2 days ago

Applicants have to pay the KCET application fee to complete KCET registration. The application fee for KCET 2026 varies according to the category of candidates. Applicants can check the KCET application fee for various categories below:

1. GM, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B category students of Karnataka: INR 50

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Saumya Gairola

Contributor-Level 9

Answered 2 days ago

KCET is an accepted entrance exam for admisison in BE courses in BSG Institute of Technology. The KCET Exam will be held through the offline mode. The question paper will be consist of MCQs. The total duration of the exam paper is 80 minutes. There is no negative marking in the question paper.

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Saumya Gairola

Contributor-Level 9

Answered 2 days ago

Acharya Institute of Technology KCET cutoff 2025 has been closed for intake to B.E. / B.Tech and other courses. The cutoff was published for reserved and unreserved category students belonging to AI and HS quotas. For B.E. / B.Tech admission, the last round closing ranks were between 26494 and 25898

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Rakshit Prabhakar

Contributor-Level 10

Answered a week ago

No, students can't get admission in NIT Surathkal BTech with KCET scores. The institute accepts admissions for BTech solely through JEE Main scores. Students have to then appear for the counselling process to get a seat.

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Aishwarya Malhotra

Contributor-Level 10

Answered a week ago

6-8 months is a sufficient time to prepare for the KCET. However, for students who are well-versed with 10+2, they will find cracking the KCET easy.

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Mamona Rai

Contributor-Level 7

Answered a week ago

Based on past year trends, Maths is generally considered difficult and time-consuming section to prepare for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test. Rest are easy to crack.

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Lalit Jain

Contributor-Level 7

Answered a week ago

Candidates can find the KCET syllabus PDF from its official website. There the authorities have uploaded the KCET information brochure PDF which students can download for their perusal.

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Nishtha Chaudhary

Contributor-Level 7

Answered a week ago

Yes, B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering at VTU is easily achievable with a rank of 7000 for the students belonging to the General AI category. 

Students can refer to the table below to know which colleges are available to them in the last round. 

College Last Round (Closing Rank)
Acharya Institute of Technology36960
Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management35584
SJB Institute of Technology33150
JSS Academy of Technical Education30202
Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering29642
Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology28117
KLE Dr. M.S.Sheshgiri College of Engineering and Technology27834
Dr. Ambedkar Institute Of Technology (AIT), Bangalore27544
CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore27114.5
Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Engineering and Technology23757
NHCE Bangalore - New Horizon College of Engineering22469
KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi21865
Dayananda Sagar College Of Engineering20446
R.N.S. Institute of Technology19792
B.N.M Institute of Technology19049
BMS Institute of Technology and Management15498
KLE Technological University15143
R V Institute of Technology and Management14565
Siddaganga Institute of Technology14310
Bangalore Institute of Technology13549
The National Institute of Engineering12751

Note: This is not the entire list of col

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Neerja Rohatgi

Contributor-Level 10

Answered 2 weeks ago

The KCET Cutoff 2025 was released for admission to the BE/BTech courses for various categories under both the All India and Home State quotas. 

For the General AI category, the overall cutoff varied between 234 and 261973. The maximum rank at which admissions are entertained was 261973. Please keep i

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Neerja Rohatgi

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