OU CET (UG) 2025 Counselling (Ongoing): Dates, Registration, Merit List and Procedure

If you receive an allotment in Round 1, you must report to the allotted department on campus during the prescribed dates and bring all the important documents. You will also need to pay the admission and departmental fees immediately. The rules state that fee collection will happen “on the spot” by bank draft or online means. (Candidates must prepare drafts for registration fees, admission fee, and any department fund as instructed. After successful verification and fee payment, the department will confirm your admission. Note that once you accept Round 1 seat and pay fees, you may or may not be eligible to switch in Round 2 – the official guidelines do not explicitly clarify upgradation, so seek advice from the admission authorities if needed.

Candidates allotted a seat in Round 2 must report to their allotted department on July 23–24, 2025. Again, bring all original documents and pay the required fees immediately (using bank drafts or online payment as per the university's instructions. Reporting for Round 2 similarly finalizes your admission. If you had a seat in Round 1 and opted out, be aware that failure to report by these dates can result in loss of admission.

Physical counseling is open mainly to candidates who did not get a seat in the online rounds or to fill reserved seats still vacant. In practice (as in previous years), the first day (s) may focus on General category candidates without seats, and subsequent days on remaining reserved category candidates. You attend in person at the designated venue (Panjab University, Chandigarh) with your documents and payment. The counselors will re-check your rank and choices, and offer available seats department by department. Once seats are offered, you must confirm and pay immediately. Since the dates for 2025 were Aug 6–8, 2025
, candidates should be prepared to be on campus on those days if they were not admitted online.

The rules specify a special provision: Indian National Math Olympiad (INMO) awardees can join the B.Sc (Hons.) Mathematics programme without appearing in the PU CET (UG) entrance test. These INMO-qualified students get admission directly, filling additional seats above the normal seat matrix. This means if you have an INMO medal, you are eligible for Math (Hons) directly under this policy.

After considering all objections, the provisional merit list (essentially the final ranked list of qualified candidates) is released. For 2025, PU CET (UG) provisional merit list was published on July 14, 2025 (evening). This date coincides with the first round of seat allocation (see next section). In practice, once the provisional list is out, it is treated as final for allotment purposes. All candidates whose names appear on that list are eligible for the next step of counseling and seat allotment.