What GMH category means in Karnataka (KEA)
General Merit — Kalyana-Karnataka (371-J) — and the verified closing ranks it drew.
In short
GMH is General Merit — Kalyana-Karnataka (371-J). The site holds 3,385 verified GMH closing ranks across 602 Karnataka colleges (2026, 2025).
What the GMH code tells you
GMH is General Merit — Kalyana-Karnataka (371-J), a column in KEA's own cut-off publications. Nothing sits between the GM and the H, so this is the plain General Merit column of that pool; GMKH and GMRH are its Kannada-medium and Rural variants, and plain GM, with no H, is the same column in the Rest-of-Karnataka file. The H places it in the 371(J) Kalyana-Karnataka pool: the column comes from KEA's separate 371(J) publication, not the Rest-of-Karnataka file.
How the general column compares with the reserved ones is set out on the GM page, from the same verified figures. This site holds 3,385 verified GMH closing ranks across 602 colleges (2026, 2025), 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 GMH 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.
GMH closing ranks, exam by exam
- KCET — GMH cut-offs 2,969 verified ranks across 553 colleges
- Karnataka PGCET — GMH cut-offs 305 verified ranks across 95 colleges
- Karnataka DCET — GMH cut-offs 111 verified ranks across 55 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 3AG means Category 3A
- 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 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 .