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What 1G category means in Karnataka (KEA)

Category 1 — and the verified closing ranks it drew.

In short

1G is Category 1 — the KEA abbreviation table expands it as “Category 1 — General. The site holds 4,295 verified 1G closing ranks across 575 Karnataka colleges (2026, 2025, 2024).

Expansion read from KEA UGCET-2026 Information Bulletin (English), 17 January 2026 — Abbreviations.

What the 1G code tells you

1G is Category 1 — General, as the abbreviations table in KEA's UGCET-2026 Information Bulletin expands it. Read it in parts. 1 is the category: Category 1 is one of Karnataka's own backward classes categories — 1, 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B — which is why it appears on a KEA list and not on a national one. The G marks the General seats in that category; its Rural (R) and Kannada-medium (K) counterparts are separate columns, and each of those needs its own 10-year study certificate.

Which category applies to you is printed on your CET admission ticket and set by government order, not by this site. Compare 1G closing ranks with your category rank, not the overall rank printed largest on your result — KEA publishes both, and they are different numbers. This site holds 4,295 verified 1G closing ranks across 575 colleges (2026, 2025, 2024), each transcribed from an official KEA allotment publication and listed exam by exam below.

How the code is built

KEA codes read left to right. Decoding the parts lets you read any code in the allotment file, not just this one.

PartValuesWhat it says
HeadGM, 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, SC/S1–S4, STThe vertical category — who competes in that column.
MiddleG, R, KGeneral, Rural or Kannada-medium — the horizontal reservation inside the category. Rural and Kannada-medium need their own 10-year study certificates.
TailH (and KH / RH)Present only in the 371(J) Kalyana-Karnataka publication: GMH is General Merit in the HK pool, GMKH its Kannada-medium variant, GMRH its rural variant. A code without H comes from the Rest-of-Karnataka file.

The full KEA suffix table covers every code, including the ones with no published closing ranks.

What 1G actually closed at

The two ends of the published range. Every figure is transcribed from the official allotment publication — a rank between these is not a promise of a seat, it is what this category drew last time.

1G closing ranks, exam by exam

Claiming this category

A category claim is verified at document verification. The certificate forms KEA’s UGCET-2026 bulletin lists, clause by clause, and how the categories themselves work.

Other category codes

Figures last checked against the official publication on .