What 3AG category means in Karnataka (KEA)
Category 3A — and the verified closing ranks it drew.
In short
3AG is Category 3A — the KEA abbreviation table expands it as “Category 3A — General”. The site holds 4,407 verified 3AG closing ranks across 581 Karnataka colleges (2026, 2025, 2024).
Expansion read from KEA UGCET-2026 Information Bulletin (English), 17 January 2026 — Abbreviations.
What the 3AG code tells you
3AG is Category 3A — General, as the abbreviations table in KEA's UGCET-2026 Information Bulletin expands it. Read it in parts. 3A is the category: Category 3A 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 3AG 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 4,407 verified 3AG closing ranks across 581 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.
| Part | Values | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| Head | GM, 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, SC/S1–S4, ST | The vertical category — who competes in that column. |
| Middle | G, R, K | General, Rural or Kannada-medium — the horizontal reservation inside the category. Rural and Kannada-medium need their own 10-year study certificates. |
| Tail | H (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 3AG 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.
3AG closing ranks, exam by exam
- KCET — 3AG cut-offs 3,965 verified ranks across 519 colleges
- Karnataka PGCET — 3AG cut-offs 359 verified ranks across 117 colleges
- Karnataka DCET — 3AG cut-offs 83 verified ranks across 42 colleges
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
- What 1G means Category 1
- What 1H means Category 1 — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What 2AG means Category 2A
- What 2AH means Category 2A — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What 2BG means Category 2B
- What 2BH means Category 2B — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What 3AH means Category 3A — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What 3BG means Category 3B
- What 3BH means Category 3B — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What GM means General Merit
- What GMH means General Merit — Kalyana-Karnataka (371-J)
- What KKR means Kalyana-Karnataka Region
- What S1G means Scheduled Caste — SCA
- What S1H means Scheduled Caste SCA — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What S2G means Scheduled Caste — SCB
- What S2H means Scheduled Caste SCB — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What S3G means Scheduled Caste — SCC (80%)
- What S3H means Scheduled Caste SCC (80%) — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What S4G means Scheduled Caste — SCC (20%)
- What S4H means Scheduled Caste SCC (20%) — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What SCG means Scheduled Caste
- What SCH means Scheduled Caste — Kalyana-Karnataka
- What STG means Scheduled Tribe
- What STH means Scheduled Tribe — Kalyana-Karnataka
Figures last checked against the official publication on .