JOIN USThe second round of CET counselling is likely to be delayed by a few days. It was to begin on July 4 with the announcement of a fresh matrix of seats.
The online counselling, for those who have cracked the Common Entrance Test (CET), precedes allotment of seats for engineering, architecture and other professional courses in Karnataka. “Though we had scheduled it for July 4, we will postpone it by two or three days,” said a senior official of the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA).
The KEA is waiting for a High Court decision on B Pharma seats. The court had passed an interim order, in response to a writ petition filed by the Karnataka Pharmacy College Management Association, to keep out B Pharma seats from the counselling process.
Also, the KEA has not yet received the seat matrix for Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (abbreviated to Ayush) courses from the Ayush department.
“Many students want to opt for B Pharma and Ayush courses. So we may wait for those seats to be available during counselling,” the official said.
The ‘option entry’ for the second round was scheduled for Tuesday, and publication of the allotment for July 8.
NEET counselling
Students who have taken the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) may have to register for counselling for MBBS seats from July 5 or 6.
On Monday, officials of the KEA and department of medical education met to discuss the process. The government is expected to announce the schedule within two days.
Students who exercised ‘choice 2’ in the first round of CET counselling but wish to participate in NEET counselling may opt for ‘choice 2’ again in the second round.
By doing so, they will be able to hold on to their engineering seat until they know the results of the counselling for medical seats. “The students will have to pay the fee when exercising ‘choice 2’ in the second round. If they get a medical seat before the third round of engineering counselling, the fee will be transferred to the allotted college,” an official said.
Kannada test
Horanadu (non-resident) and Gadinadu (border area) Kannadigas who have written NEET and wish to apply for government-quota medical seats will have to write a Kannada language test, a KEA official said.