Karnataka exam calendar

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• 24 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 exercising of choices by allotted candidates ends (22–24 Sep) official source

  Row 6: "22-09-2026 – 24-09-2026 (up to 5.30 pm)" — choices exercised by the seat-allotted candidates in consultation with their parents. ⚠️ The printed close is 5:30 PM on the 24th; this row is dated by the day.

• 25 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 fee payment (Choice-1 and Choice-2) and confirmation-slip download end (22–25 Sep) official source

  Row 7: "22-09-2026 – 25-09-2026 (Banking Working Days / Hours)" — payment of fees by Choice-1 and Choice-2 candidates, and downloading of the confirmation slip by Choice-1 candidates. KEA prints no hour; bank hours, not midnight, are the practical close.

• 26 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 last date for Choice-1 candidates to report at the allotted college official source

  Row 8: "26-09-2026 – before 5.30 pm" — Choice-1 candidates only, with all the originals listed on the confirmation slip. ⚠️ The printed close is 5:30 PM; this row is dated by the day.

• 1 October 2026

  KSET — Hall ticket released official source

• 11 October 2026

  KSET — KSET 2026 exam (Sunday), 37 subjects official source

Live counselling rounds

Round-by-round status with the official notification behind every stage, from the same tracker the counselling guides run on.

Waiting on announcements

Exams whose next cycle has no dates we could verify. Each row says why — a calendar that lists a guess is worse than one that names its gaps.

• KCET (UGCET) 2027 — KEA had not notified the 2027 cycle when this site checked, on 12 August 2026. The 2026 cycle has no dated stage left on this site’s KCET tracker: Round-3 reporting at the allotted college closed at 6:00 PM on 11 September 2026, and KEA’s notice No. ED/KEA/ADALITHA/C.R.04(BHA)/2026 of 8 September 2026 states that online allotment of the Government-quota engineering seats concluded on 7 September 2026. official portal
• COMEDK UGET 2027 — comedk.org listed no 2027 document when this site read it on 17 September 2026; its newest dated notice was the architecture vacant-seat list after Round-4 decision making, notified on 13 September 2026. official portal
• CAT 2026 — The IIM CAT portal served no readable schedule when this site checked, on 12 August 2026, so no CAT 2026 date is listed; confirm dates on the portal. official portal
• CLAT 2027 — When this site checked, on 12 August 2026, the Consortium of NLUs site said applications were open but served no readable dates, so no CLAT 2027 date is listed; confirm dates there. official portal
• NEET UG 2027 — NTA had not notified the 2027 cycle when this site checked, on 12 August 2026. official portal
• Karnataka PGCET 2026 counselling — KEA dated Round 1 in No. ED/KEA/ADMN/PGCET/2026, served 16 September 2026: option entry closed at 9:00 AM on 17 September 2026, and the final allotment result is due after 4:00 PM on 21 September 2026. The Government’s FINAL seat matrix and anything after Round 1 were still undated when this site read KEA’s PGCET portal on 17 September 2026. official portal

Recently passed

• 22 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 option entry closes — reopened after the mock result official source

  ⏰ The printed close is 11:00 AM on the 22nd; this row is dated by the day, so treat the morning as the deadline, not the day. KEA’s mock-result notice states in red that candidates may enter options for the first-round seat allotment "up to 11.00 AM on 22-09-2026". It REPLACES the 17–19 September change window, which expired with nothing to verify against. ⚠️ Candidates who have entered NO options may enter them in this window too. ⚠️ Enter them as if it were the only time: KEA warns that the options entered in priority order for Round 1 are the same ones considered in every later round, with no opportunity to enter options afresh; after each round, deleting an option or changing its order depends on the CHOICE opted at that round. Options are entered against the Government’s FINAL seat matrix of 17 September.

• 21 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — UGNEET Round-2 reporting at the allotted college closes 5:00 PM official source

  "Last date to report to the allotted college along with seat confirmation slip — 21.09.2026 (upto 5.00 pm)". Admission is compulsory for a candidate allotted a seat in the final result. KEA also directs every participating college to stay open on all holidays, given the short time available for counselling.

• 21 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 real seat allotment FINAL result — due in the afternoon official source

  Row 5: "21-09-2026 – after 4.00 pm".

• 20 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — UGNEET seat cancellation / exit from KEA counselling closes 5:00 PM official source

  Opened after the Round-2 final result for candidates who do not want the KEA seat — usually because an MCC seat or a home-state seat came through. KEA’s own sentence gives the window as 4:00 PM on 17-09-2026 to 5:00 PM on 20-09-2026, and says the seats cancelled this way are considered for the third round. ⚠️ Cancelling carries a penalty of Rs.5,000 + Rs.5,000 at this stage, rising steeply once the last date to enter Round-3 options passes — and KEA has not yet published that date. Read the notice before cancelling.

• 20 September 2026

  KMAT Karnataka — Exam day (online test) official source

  MCA 10 am–12 pm, MBA 2 pm–4 pm, per the official Key Dates table. Admit card date still marked TBA there.

• 19 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 MOCK seat allotment result PUBLISHED — two days late official source

  Published at about 2:42 PM, two days and three hours after the "after 6:00 PM on 17 September" KEA’s own round schedule printed, with a result link on the PGCET portal labelled 19-09-2026 and no notice explaining the delay. ⚠️ A MOCK IS NOT AN ALLOTMENT — KEA calls it only indicative; the seat it shows may or may not survive the real round, because every other candidate is revising options after seeing theirs, and no college can admit anybody on it. Its purpose is to let candidates revise before the real allotment, and KEA reopened option entry to 11:00 AM on 22 September in the same notice. ⚠️ Six MOCK cut-off rank tables were published with it (MBA, MCA and M.Tech, general and Hyderabad-Karnataka pools). No rank from them is reproduced on this site: they are mock figures, not this year’s real closing ranks.

• 19 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 real seat allotment PROVISIONAL result — due in the evening official source

  Row 4: "19-09-2026 - after 5.00 pm". ⚠️ IT DID NOT APPEAR, AND IT CANNOT NOW HAPPEN ON THIS DATE. The PGCET portal was fetched and its row labels read by hand on the evening of 20 September: there is no row dated the 20th at all, and the newest PGCET row is the mock result of the 19th. A real allotment also cannot precede the options it allots against, and KEA reopened option entry to 11:00 AM on 22 September on the same day this result was due. KEA has published no replacement date — for this row or for the ones after it — and none is invented here.

• 19 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 option-change window ends in the morning (opened 17 Sep evening) official source

  Row 3: "from 6.00 pm on 17-09-2026 upto 19-09-2026 11.00 am" — after verifying the mock result, candidates may change, reorder, delete and add choices of courses and colleges. ⚠️ THIS WINDOW EXPIRED UNUSED. The mock result it depends on had not appeared when the portal was read at 1:50 PM on the 19th, two hours past this close; it was published later that afternoon. KEA then REPLACED this window rather than extending it — its mock-result notice of 19 September reopens option entry to 11:00 AM on 22 September, and that is the date to act on. Nobody who missed this one has lost anything.

• 19 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — UGNEET Round-2 fee payment and seat confirmation slip download end (16–19 Sep, banking hours) official source

  Candidates allotted a seat in the Round-2 FINAL result, published at 2:00 PM on 16 September, pay the prescribed fee and then download the seat confirmation slip: "16.09.2026 to 19.09.2026 (Banking hours)". KEA prints no hour, so bank hours on the 19th, not midnight, are the practical close.

• 18 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Government’s FINAL seat matrix published — MBA, MCA, M.Tech and M.Arch official source

  The step option entry and allotment wait on, and the one part of this round KEA had never dated. The notification is dated 17 September and signed by the Under Secretary, Higher Education Department (Technical Education); KEA posted it at about 7:36 PM on 18 September. It supersedes the 8 September draft — the objections invited within three days have been considered — and directs KEA to allot seats against this matrix. ⚠️ The covering order says FINAL; all six annexure sheets are headed "1ST ROUND PROVISIONAL". Both are accurate: the Government’s approval of the intake is final, while the Round-1 matrix is the round’s opening stock before cancellations and vacancies move it. Six files — MBA, MCA and M.Tech for the general pool and the same three for special category. No seat count from them is reproduced on this site.

• 17 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 option entry closes 9:00 AM — MBA, MCA, M.Tech and M.Arch (opened 11 Sep, 11:00 AM) official source

  CLOSED at 9:00 AM on 17 September on KEA’s printed instant: the PGCET portal, re-read at about 1:00 PM that day, carries no extension notice and the option-entry row is unchanged. Row 1 of the round schedule: "from 11.00 am on 11-09-2026 upto 17-09-2026 - 09.00 am". Options were entered against the 8 September DRAFT seat matrix; the Government’s FINAL matrix was published on the evening of 18 September, after this window had closed. ⚠️ The mock result that was to show where those options would land had still not appeared when the portal was read at 1:50 PM on 19 September — two hours after the option-change window it feeds was printed to close. KEA has published no extension and no explanation.

• 17 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Round-1 MOCK allotment result — due in the evening official source

  Row 2: "17-09-2026 – after 6.00 pm". A mock is not an allotment — it shows where the options entered would land. ⚠️ IT DID NOT APPEAR ON THIS DAY. The PGCET portal was read by hand at about 1:30 PM on 18 September and again at about 1:50 PM on 19 September with no mock-result row either time. It was published on 19 September at about 2:42 PM — two days and three hours late, and fifty minutes after that second read; see the entry on the 19th. This row records what KEA scheduled, not what happened.

• 16 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — Objections to the UGNEET Round-2 revised provisional result close 9:00 AM official source

  Specific objections about the published result — KEA’s examples are a cut-off rank to be checked, or options entered and no seat allotted — go to keauthority-ka@nic.in before this instant, which is also printed at the head of every page of both lists. ⚠️ KEA says "I entered options but was not allotted a seat" is not an objection it will take, and options cannot be changed at this stage.

• 15 September 2026

  Karnataka PGCET — Claim Slip download closes 2:00 PM (opens 11 Sep) official source

  KEA prints the opening as a bare date and the closing as an instant, so the start here is the beginning of 11 September rather than a stated hour. This is the only window that document dates, and the round schedule served on 16 September does not extend it. The slip is what a candidate signs in to option entry with; what a candidate who never downloaded one should do now, KEA has not said.

• 15 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — UGNEET Round-2 REVISED provisional result after the Choice-4 re-run — published official source

  Medical (598 pages) and dental (129), each headed "2nd ROUND SECOND PROVISIONAL SEAT ALLOTMENT LIST — PUBLISHED ON [15-09-2026]", generated at 9:59 PM and 10:02 PM. KEA re-ran the Round-2 allotment counting the seats surrendered through Choice-4, on the options already submitted, so a seat on the 11 September list can have moved. Still PROVISIONAL: the final result follows the objections and is undated.

• 14 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — UGNEET Round-2 Choice-4 closes 5:00 PM (opens 11 Sep, 3:00 PM) official source

  CONFIRMED OPEN on 12 September: KEA's UGNEET portal now carries a row dated [11-09-2026] titled, in its own words, "link to EXIT from the KEA counselling process" — which is what Choice-4 does — and it serves the live allotment-process login. It was absent when the portal was checked twice on the 11th. ⚠️ KEA does not caption that row "Choice-4" and it points at the same general option-entry login as several older rows, so sign in and read the screen before selecting. The case KEA writes this window for is the candidate allotted a seat in BOTH the MCC and the KEA second rounds who wants to take the MCC seat: selecting Choice-4 exits them from KEA counselling for the year. ⚠️ It offers an exit, not an edit — options cannot be changed here, and a candidate who takes Choice-4 is not considered for allotment again. Doing nothing keeps a candidate in the re-run, where an allotment can still be up-graded.

• 11 September 2026

  KCET (UGCET) — Round-3 reporting at the allotted college closes 6:00 PM — compulsory official source

  Seat-cancellation requests will not be entertained for any reason, and KEA states that legal action follows a candidate who does not take admission.

• 11 September 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Architecture Round-4 reporting at the allotted college closes 3:00 PM official source

  Only candidates with “Accept & Freeze” report. Failing to join and continue at the allotted college forfeits the fee paid at COMEDK level and carries a penalty of five times that fee.

• 11 September 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Architecture Round-4 decision making and fee payment closes 12:00 noon official source

• 11 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — UGNEET Round-2 PROVISIONAL seat allotment result — published official source

  Medical (603 pages) and dental (129), allotted on merit from the options saved before the option window shut at 9:30 AM on 10 September, each headed "PUBLISHED ON [11-09-2026]". KEA printed "after 2:00 PM"; the files are generated-stamped 3:27 PM and went up around 4:10 PM. Rows carry the All India Rank, college, course, category, fee and status — no names or CET numbers. ⚠️ Do not substitute the portal's "2nd round result link": the only one live is the 17 August MOCK link. It is PROVISIONAL — KEA re-runs the round after the Choice-4 window before publishing the Round-2 final result, so a seat on this list can still move, upward included, since candidates are considered for up-gradation to higher-order options in the re-run.

• 10 September 2026

  KCET (UGCET) — Round-3 fee payment and seat confirmation slip download — last day official source

  ⚠️ KEA prints the closing DATE and no hour, so this instant is the end of the day — the last possible moment, not a promise the portal stays open to it. Earlier UGCET fee windows this season shut at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM. Pay early in the day.

• 10 September 2026

  DCET — Round-2 reporting at the allotted college closes 6:00 PM official source

• 10 September 2026

  NEET-UG — UGNEET Round-2 option entry closes 9:30 AM — EXTENDED (opened 7 Sep, 2:00 PM) official source

  Options must be logged in and SAVED before the closing instant, not merely typed. Open to Round-1 Choice-2 and Choice-3 holders, to anyone allotted no seat in Round 1, and to UGCET candidates who took Choice-4 after the UGCET Round-2 allotment whose option list holds medical or dental options.

• 9 September 2026

  DCET — Round-2 fee payment and Confirmation Slip download closes 5:00 PM (opened 7 Sep, 11:00 AM) official source

  A fee already paid in the earlier round is adjusted against this one when a seat is taken here.

• 8 September 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Round-4 reporting at the allotted college closes 3:00 PM official source

• 6 September 2026

  KMAT Karnataka — Online registration closes official source

• 6 September 2026

  DCET — Round-2 FINAL seat allotment result, after 6:00 PM official source

  After this result there is no choice left: KEA states candidates have no CHOICE options, may not refuse the allotted seat, and must take admission by the stated date. The PROVISIONAL result came a day earlier, on 5 September, about three hours past its own printed hour.

• 6 September 2026

  KSET — Last date to pay the application fee official source

• 5 September 2026

  KCET (UGCET) — Round-3 CHOICE-4 on the provisional result closes 5:00 PM official source

  Only for candidates allotted for the first time in Round 3, and taking it means leaving UGCET counselling for the year. A candidate who reported against a Round-2 seat and entered Round 3 for an upgrade may not give Choice-4 at all. ⚠️ KEA serves this notification only intermittently, and has since the evening of 5 September, after the window closed. It is still listed on the portal; if the link returns 404, try it again later rather than treating the document as gone.

• 5 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — Round-1 reporting at the allotted college closes 6:00 PM — extended from 4 Sep official source

  Choice-1 candidates carry the fee-paid receipt and the downloaded Seat Confirmation Slip. KEA has directed colleges to treat Saturdays, Sundays and gazetted holidays as working days.

• 5 September 2026

  KSET — Last date to apply online official source

• 4 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — Round-1 fee payment by Choice-1, then slip download, closes 4:00 PM — extended from 3 Sep official source

  KEA marks the payment as falling within banking transaction hours, so 4:00 PM is the portal’s close rather than a promise the transaction will still go through.

• 4 September 2026

  NEET-UG (Karnataka) — Round-1 choice selection closes 2:00 PM (Choice-1/2/3/4) — extended from 2 Sep official source

  A candidate who exercises no suitable Choice is treated as Choice-4 — taken not to want the seat, and out of the later rounds.

• 3 September 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Round-4 decision making & fee payment closes 2:00 PM official source

  COMEDK states there is no seat-cancellation option during or after Round 4.

• 3 September 2026

  KCET (UGCET) — Round-3 option entry closes 6:00 PM — options must be entered AFRESH official source

  Options from the earlier rounds are not carried over. After the Round-3 result there is no choice, and cancelling costs five times the fee.

• 24 August 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Round-3 reporting at the college by 12:00 noon; seat cancellation closes 3:00 PM official source

• 21 August 2026

  DCET — Choice-1: reporting at the allotted college closes 5:30 PM official source

• 21 August 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Round-3 decision making & fee payment closes 4:00 PM official source

  The seat is not held by the allotment alone — this is the payment deadline for it.

• 20 August 2026

  KCET (UGCET) + NEET-UG Karnataka — Option modification closed 9:00 AM (UGCET R2 / UGNEET R1) official source

  Options could be added, removed, reordered or modified until this deadline; eligible candidates could enter medical and dental options in the same window. It closed on time: both portals were re-read at 11:20 PM IST on 20 August and carried no extension notice, nor anything dated 20 August at all. The 17 August allotment was a MOCK - no admission can be taken on it - and the real allotment was still undated that day, already past the 19 August the schedule gave it.

• 19 August 2026

  KCET (UGCET) + NEET-UG Karnataka — Provisional allotment results were SCHEDULED (UGCET R2 / UGNEET R1) - not published official source

  KEA did not publish on this date. Both portals were re-read at 21:00 IST on 19 August and every allotment item still read MOCK, dated 17-08-2026. The 17 August notification reopened option modification until 20 August 9:00 AM and gives the real allotment no date at all, so it cannot precede that deadline. Row kept because this calendar is the season log; the schedule said it, and it did not happen.

• 18 August 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Round-3 allotment result; decision & fee payment opens 4:00 PM (to 21 Aug, 4:00 PM) official source

  Reporting at the college by 24 Aug 12:00 noon; seat cancellation 18 Aug 4:00 PM → 24 Aug 3:00 PM (Round-1 and Round-2 KKR holders may cancel in Round 3 too).

• 17 August 2026

  DCET — Round-1 option entry closes 11:00 AM; allotment result after 2:00 PM official source

  Then: choice selection 17 Aug 4:00 PM → 19 Aug; Choice-1 fee payment and seat-confirmation-slip download 18–20 Aug.

• 16 August 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Round-3 choice filling / edit closes 2:00 PM (opened 14 Aug, 3:00 PM) official source

• 13 August 2026

  KCET (UGCET) + NEET-UG Karnataka — Option entry closes 9:00 AM (UGCET R2 / UGNEET R1) — joint window official source

  Round-1 seat cancellation (Choice-1/2 holders) closes the same morning, 11:00 AM, in person at KEA Bengaluru.

• 12 August 2026

  COMEDK UGET — B.Arch & B.Planning Round-1 allotment and decision-making (2 PM) official source

• 8 August 2026

  NATA — Phase-2 test days end (7–8 August) official source

• 7 August 2026

  COMEDK UGET — Engineering cut-offs after Round 2 published official source

• 7 August 2026

  KCET (UGCET) — Vacant seat lists published, all professional courses official source