KCET Seat Allotment 2020: Every year Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) conducts the Karnataka Common Entrance Test on a state level. It provides admission into the Engineering (B.Tech) & other professional courses in the state of Karnataka. KCET seat matrix 2020 will take place after the declaration of the result. The students who will qualify the KCET 2020 exam will be called for counselling and seat allotment procedure will start. KCET Seat Matrix 2020 for engineering courses depends on the rank secured by the candidates in the KCET exam, preferred college, course and KCET Cut off. Thus concerned authority will allot the seats to the candidates in various programs under different disciplines. For more details read the article given below.
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KCET Seat Allotment Important Dates 2020
The qualified and rank holder candidates must be aware of the dates related to the seat allotment procedure and admission. Dates are given in advance so that students may get familiar with the events beforehand. And thus make prepare themselves accordingly.
| Events | Dates |
| Option Entry for Seat Allotment | to be notified |
| Declaration of Mock Allotment Results | — |
| Provision to change options if any by candidates | — |
| Release of Final Allotment Result | — |
| Confirmation of Choices on Allotment | — |
| Payment of Fees and downloading of admission order | — |
| Last Date for Reporting in The College | — |
| Display of Seat Matrix ( For Round 2) | — |
| Provisional to modify/delete or re-order option | — |
| Release of the Allotment Result (For Round 2) | — |
| Exercise of choice by candidates allotted seat in round-2 | — |
| Payment of fees and downloading of admission order | — |
| Last date to report to the allotted institute | — |
| Display of Seat Matrix – Second Extended Round | — |
| Option Entry | — |
| Seat Allotment | — |
| Payment of Fees and Downloading of Admission Order | — |
| Last date to report at allotted institutes | — |
| Special Round (for vacant seats) Display of Seat Matrix | — |
| Special Round (for vacant seats) Fresh Option Entry | — |
| Announcement of Allotment for Special Round | — |
| Confirmation of Allotment, Fee Payment and Downloading of Admission Order | — |
| Final Date for Reporting to College | — |
KCET 2020 Seat Allotment Process
KEA will issue the seat matrix for each discipline for the allotment of the seats. The seat matrix will be prepared as per college wise, course wise and category wise on the KEA official website. Allotment of the seats will take place in three rounds. Each round will consist of three phases and each phase consists of the number of iterations.
KCET First Round Seat Allotment 2020
In the first round candidates are allotted seats in the order of merit-based. As per the priority entered by the candidates, steps are taken in that way. The reservation policy of the Government is also kept in mind.
Thus, the concerned authority will first allot the seats on the basis of merit and priority of options and continues in the same order. If at any stage in round 1, the seats got cancelled then that will be considered for allotment of a seat in the next iteration. Therefore multiple iterations may take place in the 1st Phase. The process continues until the last seat is not filled in each round. That means the candidates will always be climbing upwards both in options and in a roster.
Second Round Allotment
After the 1st round, the seats that remain unfilled under all the Rural and Kannada medium quota of the reserved categories will be converted to General of the respective reserved categories (SCR & SCK to SCG, STR & STK to STG, 1R & 1K to 1G, 2AR & 2AK to 2AG, 2BR & 2BK to 2BG, 3AR & 3AK to 3AG, 3BR & 3BK to 3BG) before the commencement of 2nd Phase. Mind that the seats are only offered to the reserved category candidates including GMR & GMK category candidates in the 2nd round. Rise in the vacancies during this allotment of seats will remain in the same category and will be offered to the same reserved category candidates. Keynotes from the 2nd round are:
- Only reserved category candidates are considered for allotment
- GM candidates will not be considered.
- GM and SNQ seats will also be not considered for allotment of seats.
Important Points Regarding the 2nd Seat Allotment
Conversion of seats will be adopted before the commencement of 2nd Phase of allotment.
The reserved category seat becomes vacant if the reserved category candidates are allotted with a General Merit / respective reserved category seat during the 2nd phase of allotment. Such seats are treated as ‘CONSEQUENTIAL VACANCIES’.
Third Round KCET Seat Allotment
Seats which are vacant in the 2nd round are moved to the 3rd round. The remaining unfilled seats under General reserved categories (SCG, STG, 1G, 2AG, 2BG, 3AG, 3BG, GMR, and GMK), with reserved special category seats, will be converted to the General merit category and will be offered to the candidates of that category. The Rural and Kannada medium reserved category seats that arise during the 3rd Phase of allotment and if remains un-allotted then the same seat will be converted to the General of the respective reserved categories only if there are no seats in the respective general category and will be made available for allotment only to the respective reserved category candidates during 3rd Phase of allotment. In this round also, the order of seat allotment remains the same as the above two i.e
Special Feature of 3rd Seat Allotment Round
- If seats are vacant then the reserved category will be converted to GM automatically and will be offered to all the eligible candidates from 1st to the last rank based on the priority of options entered.
- It stops only when there is no seat in the reserved category and no change in the allotment
Once the KEA CET seat allotment procedure is over, the candidates have to move to the next step i.e the choice filling. The choice filling will take place in many steps. The selected students have to choose one of the choices among others. Hence look upon the details of the choices and act accordingly.What after KCET Seat Allotment 2020?
Particulars Details Choice 1 Choice 2 Candidates who are satisfied with the allotted seat but wish to participate in the next round. If higher options are allotted then earlier allotted seat gets cancelled automatically OR if higher options seats are not allotted then earlier allotted seat shall remain in candidates favour. Choice 3 Choice 4 Students who are not satisfied with KEA allotted seat and have got seats elsewhere. He/she quits and not to be considered for allotment of seats in any of the further rounds. KCET Seat Allotment FAQs
