KEA issues advisory for UGCET 2025 option-entry facility after technical failure causes panic
Gauri Mittal | July 13, 2025 | 07:26 PM IST | 1 min read
The first round seat allotment schedule is revised due to the option entry portal facing technical issues.
Get exam-ready for KCET 2026 with this ebook containing full-length sample papers based on the latest syllabus and pattern.
Download NowKarnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has issued an advisory for candidates participating in the option entry process for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET or UGCET) 2025. As per the official statement, the option entry facility is currently facing technical glitches, leading to delays in the process.
KCET 2026: Sample Papers | Syllabus | Mock Test
Also See: Top Engineering Colleges in Karnataka
The Karnataka UGCET 2025 counselling process is underway. Qualified candidates can fill in the options through the official website at cetonline.karnataka.gov.in.
The login credentials to access the KCET or UGCET 2025 option-entry facility include candidate’s login or registration number and password.
KCET counselling 2025: Highlights
Karnataka UGCET counselling is for admission to undergraduate courses in engineering and technology, architecture, AYUSH and allied health sciences, and agriculture. Students who appeared for the UGCET exam must register for counselling. Students who appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) can also register for UGCET counselling for medical admissions to Karnataka colleges.
All students who have registered for counselling and choice-filling have to appear for a document verification process. Candidates of Karnataka domicile have to appear for physical verification, while non-Karnataka candidates can download the verification slip from their portals.
Also read KCET Cut-off 2025: BTech closing ranks for top engineering colleges in Bangalore
How to access KCET 2025 option entry?
Candidates can follow the steps given below to access the UGCET 2025 option entry facility.
- Click on “UGCET 2025 first round option entry link”
- Either scan the QR code or enter your CET registration number.
- Keep the choices prepared in advance and log out safely after choice-filling
In the light of glitching KEA servers, the counselling schedule for Round 1 has been revised, extending the time for choice-filling.
Revised UGCET 2025 counselling schedule
|
Event |
Last date |
|
Option entry for preferences |
July 18 |
|
Mock seat allotment results |
July 21 |
|
Alteration of options |
July 24 |
|
Final seat allotment results |
July 28 |
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- What changes with the National Dental Commission? Shrinking state role, NExT exam, BDS fee regulation
- Central institutions fill over 30,000 posts; SC, ST, OBC ones more slowly: Education ministry data
- IIFT Kolkata: Placements close with no jobs for over 34%; students allege bias in process
- Medical Colleges: NMC mandates more beds in select PG courses, fewer faculty for private institutes
- Revamp Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, serve breakfast under PM POSHAN, regulate foreign university campuses: Panel
- ‘What is our life?’: Transgender Bill 2026 ‘returns us to the 1880s,’ says Kerala’s first trans lawyer
- ‘Thought it was my fault’: How students are being harassed, followed and silenced – on the way to school
- Fix PMKVY, hold PM-SETU until foolproof; set up national skill board to rationalise schemes: Panel
- Degrees Without Jobs: 40% of graduates in India can’t find work, fewer get salaried employment, finds report
- IIT Delhi’s Jhajjar campus expansion shelved after technical survey flags weak soil, waterlogging: Govt