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The Karnataka Examinations Authority has given candidates allotted a seat in the first round one more window to act, and it is a short one. Choice selection closes at 2:00 PM on 4 September 2026, fee payment at 4:00 PM the same day, and reporting at the allotted college at 6:00 PM on 5 September 2026.

The notice covers both medical and dental courses, and it is aimed at one group in particular: candidates who were allotted a seat in the first round and have done nothing about it since. KEA has reopened the whole sequence for them, from selecting a choice through to walking into the college.

The extended deadlines

• Choice selection: up to 2:00 PM on 4 September 2026
• Fee payment by Choice 1 candidates, and downloading the seat confirmation slip: up to 4:00 PM on 4 September 2026, during banking hours
• Reporting at the allotted college with the seat confirmation slip, for Choice 1 candidates: up to 6:00 PM on 5 September 2026

KEA has put the banking hours caveat in red on its own notice. Fee payment runs through the banking channel, so a payment attempted late in the window can fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the counselling portal. Paying early on 4 September is the safer route.

Doing nothing is itself a decision

The sting is in the last line of the notice. A candidate who fails to select an appropriate choice is treated as not interested in the first round seat and is recorded as Choice 4. Under KEA’s choice system that ends the candidate’s participation in the subsequent rounds.

This is worth reading twice. Skipping the window is not a neutral act that parks you until round 2. It is recorded as an exit, and the exit is from the whole process, not just from the seat you were given. If you are holding a first round allotment in Karnataka and you have not touched it, the decision has to be made before 2 PM today.

What each choice means

Choice 1 is acceptance: you take the allotted seat, pay the fee, download the seat confirmation slip and report to the college. It is the only choice with a fee payment and a reporting deadline attached, which is why those two rows of the notice name Choice 1 specifically.

The other choices keep you in the process on different terms, and Choice 4 is the one KEA applies by default to candidates who stay silent. If you want to remain in the running for a better seat later, the choice has to be entered actively before the deadline.

What to do now

• Log in and enter your choice before 2:00 PM on 4 September, even if you are undecided about the seat itself.
• If you are taking the seat, pay the fee well before 4:00 PM and download the seat confirmation slip immediately after the payment goes through.
• Carry the seat confirmation slip to the allotted college and report by 6:00 PM on 5 September.
• Do not assume a further extension. KEA has already moved these dates once.

Before you settle on a choice, it helps to see where a rank like yours has landed before. We track Karnataka closing ranks by college and category, our Karnataka counselling guide follows the rounds, and the Round 1 final allotment is the list these deadlines run against.

Official links

• Date extended for choice selection, fee payment and reporting to college, UGNEET 2026 first round (PDF)
• Karnataka Examinations Authority

Source: Karnataka Examinations Authority notice No. ED/KEA/ADMN/CR-11/2026 dated 3 September 2026, first round of seat allotment UGNEET-2026, date extended for choice selection, fee payment and for reporting to college.

The Karnataka Examinations Authority published the first round final seat allotment for UG medical and dental courses on 28 August 2026. 11,875 candidates were allotted an MBBS seat and 2,689 a BDS seat. The CHOICES portal opened at 4 pm the same day and closes on 2 September.

Check the final list even if you already saw the provisional one

This is a re-run, not a reprint of the 23 August result. KEA had said it would allot again after candidates holding an all-India MCC seat left Karnataka counselling through Choice-4, and the seats they gave up went back into the pool. Candidates already in the list were then moved up against options they had already entered.

The movement is large enough that the 23 August result is no guide to what you hold now. In medical, 330 candidates who had a seat in the provisional list are not in the final one, 331 appear who were not in it before, and of the 11,544 candidates in both lists, 1,421 have been allotted a different college. In dental, 105 dropped out, 105 came in, and 183 of the 2,584 common candidates changed college.

We wrote about how this re-run works when KEA announced it, in Karnataka will re-run its round 1 medical allotment.

Dates for this round

Step	Window
Choice selection (CHOICE-1 to CHOICE-4)	4.00 pm on 28 August to 11.59 pm on 2 September
Fee payment by Choice-1 candidates, then download the Seat Confirmation Slip	11.00 am on 29 August to 3 September, during banking hours
Reporting at the allotted college with the Seat Confirmation Slip	Up to 6.00 pm on 4 September

KEA has told the participating colleges to treat Saturdays, Sundays and gazetted holidays as working days for this period, so the college cannot turn you away on a weekend.

What the four choices mean

These are KEA’s own definitions, from the NEET-UG 2026 information bulletin.

• CHOICE-1: you are fully satisfied with the allotted college and course and do not want to be considered in any later round. You pay the fee, download the Seat Confirmation Slip and report to the college. You will not be considered for round 2.
• CHOICE-2: you are satisfied with the seat but want to try for a better one in round 2. You hold the round 1 seat while you do. No fee is paid now.
• CHOICE-3: you do not want the allotted seat. You surrender it and stay in the process for the next round with your remaining options. No fee is paid now.
• CHOICE-4: you have taken admission elsewhere and are leaving KEA counselling. You are then out of the later rounds.

If you exercise no choice at all, you are not eligible for round 2. The same applies if you pick CHOICE-1 and then fail to pay or download the confirmation slip.

Between rounds you cannot add a college you left out of your list. You can delete, change and re-order the options you already entered, and you may add a college only if it enters the seat matrix after this round.

Where general merit closed on government-quota seats

Karnataka fills government-quota seats in private and deemed colleges as well as in government ones, and all of them compete in the same rank ladder. That is why a deemed college sits fourth in this list, ahead of most government colleges. Closing NEET All India Ranks on general merit (GM) government-quota MBBS seats in this round, deepest twenty:

College	Type	Closing AIR (GM)
Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bengaluru	Government	2,655
Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysuru	Government	6,539
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College and Research Institute, Bengaluru	Government	8,022
Kasturba Medical College, Mangaluru	Deemed	9,426
ESIC Medical College, Bengaluru	Government	11,745
M S Ramaiah Medical College, Bengaluru	Private	12,100
JSS Medical College, Mysuru	Deemed	12,456
Karnataka Medical College and Research Institute, Hubballi	Government	12,840
Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bengaluru	Private	18,046
Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya	Government	18,335
Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Ballari	Government	20,998
Father Mullers Medical College, Mangaluru	Private	22,048
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi	Deemed	22,969
Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences, Belagavi	Government	23,126
Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, Hassan	Government	24,799
Shimoga Institute of Medical Sciences, Shivamogga	Government	25,037
Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bengaluru	Private	26,229
Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalaburagi	Government	27,047
ESIC Medical College, Kalaburagi	Government	30,892
SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad	Private	31,595

Across every GM government-quota MBBS seat allotted this round, the median closing rank is 34,917.

Of the 11,875 MBBS seats allotted, 6,465 were government-quota, 3,736 private, 1,458 management and 216 NRI, going by KEA’s own course labels.

What to do now

Open your KEA login and read the allotment as it stands today, not the screenshot you took on 23 August. Then pick a choice before 11.59 pm on 2 September, because doing nothing takes you out of round 2 as surely as CHOICE-4 does.

If you are holding out for a better college, CHOICE-2 keeps this seat while you try. If you are certain, CHOICE-1 needs the fee paid within banking hours by 3 September and you at the college by 6 pm on 4 September. Work out which colleges are realistically ahead of your rank before you decide, rather than after the window shuts.

You can see Karnataka’s closing ranks by college and category on our Karnataka NEET cutoffs page.

Source: Karnataka Examinations Authority, Note No. ED/KEA/UGCET-UGNEET/2026 dated 28 August 2026, “Medical, Dental Courses – 1st Round – Final Results”; UGNEET-2026 medical and dental 1st round final seat allotment lists, both published 28 August 2026; and the KEA NEET-UG 2026 information bulletin for the choice definitions.

The Karnataka Examinations Authority has set out what happens next for the first round of UG medical and dental admission, and it changes the status of the result published on 23 August. That result was provisional. KEA will now re-run the allotment and publish a revised final result.

If you have an MCC seat you want, act on 25 or 26 August

Candidates who were allotted a seat in the MCC first round and intend to take it must exit KEA counselling by logging in to the KEA website on 25 or 26 August 2026 and selecting Choice-4 (Exit).

That is a two-day window, and it is the only action this notification asks any candidate to take.

Everyone else may be upgraded without doing anything

The point of collecting those exits is to reuse the seats they vacate. In KEA’s words, in order to make use of the medical seats cancelled through Choice-4 by candidates taking MCC seats, and to make such seats available to eligible first-round candidates as per recent orders of the High Courts, KEA will re-run the first-round allotment for medical and dental courses.

Two things follow from that, and both matter:

The re-run uses the options you already entered. KEA states plainly that no changes to existing options will be permitted. There is nothing to edit and nothing to re-submit.

You may move up. The revised first-round result will be published “with candidates being considered for possible upgradation to higher-order options seats, subject to seat availability and applicable allotment rules”. If a seat you ranked higher gets vacated, the re-run can give it to you.

The order of events

1. Provisional first-round result — published 23 August 2026
2. MCC seat holders exit via Choice-4 — 25 and 26 August 2026
3. KEA re-runs the first-round allotment on existing options
4. Revised first-round final result published, with upgradations applied
5. The choice-selection portal for medical and dental first round is then opened

Note the order of the last two steps. The portal where you pick Choice-1, 2, 3 or 4 against your allotted seat opens after the revised result, not before. So do not wait for a choice window to appear against the 23 August allotment; the seat you are choosing on may still change.

What not to do

If you do not hold an MCC seat, you have no action here. Selecting Choice-4 means exiting KEA counselling altogether, so it is not a way to signal interest in an upgrade. The upgrade happens automatically in the re-run.

The same notification also carries the UGCET second-round final result for engineering and allied courses, which runs on a separate track with its own Choice-1 rules and a Rs. 5,000 penalty for cancelling a Choice-1 seat. Those rules do not apply to the medical and dental first round described here.

Our Karnataka cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats your rank reaches. We also covered the round 1 mock allotment and the 2026-27 college-wise fee structure.

Source: Karnataka Examinations Authority, Note No. ED/KEA/UGCET-UGNEET/2026 dated 24-08-2026, issued in Kannada and English. Quotations above are from the English text of the same notification.

The Karnataka Examinations Authority has published the college-wise fee structure for medical and dental seats for the 2026-27 academic year. The dental rates are set by Government Order No. MED 207 RGU 2026 dated 14 August 2026. The medical rates come from two separate orders: MED 218 RGU 2026 dated 14 August 2026 and MED 213 RGU 2026 dated 13 August 2026.

What the tables contain

Each college is listed with four separate rates: the government seat fee, the private seat fee, the management seat fee and the NRI fee. Colleges are also marked by type, which is what determines which of those columns actually applies to you.

On the dental side, the government colleges charge a single government rate with no private, management or NRI seats. Government Dental College at Victoria Hospital Premises, Bangalore and Government Dental College and Research Institute, Bellary are both at Rs. 49,350. The ESIC Dental College at Gulbarga is at Rs. 1,09,350.

Across private and minority dental colleges the government seat fee is a uniform Rs. 95,308, while the private, management and NRI rates vary widely by college. Among the ranges published, private-seat dental fees run from about Rs. 2.87 lakh to Rs. 7.45 lakh a year depending on the institution.

What the medical table contains

The MBBS table lists 68 colleges. Government colleges charge Rs. 64,350 a year on the government seat, and the two ESI medical colleges at Rajajinagar and Gulbarga charge Rs. 1,09,350. Many government colleges also carry a management and NRI rate of Rs. 25,09,350.

Private and minority colleges sit at a uniform Rs. 1,53,571 government-seat rate with a Rs. 12,00,117 private rate, and management and NRI rates that run from about Rs. 25 lakh to Rs. 44 lakh a year. Deemed universities are higher again, with several at Rs. 45 lakh on the management and NRI seats.

Read the seat type, not the headline number

The single most common mistake is reading a college’s lowest published figure and assuming it is what you will pay. The government seat rate applies only to seats allotted under the government quota through KEA counselling. If your rank reaches the same college under a private, management or NRI seat, the applicable figure is several times higher.

One dental college in the list, Farooquia Dental College in Mysore, carries a note that its affiliation is subject to the final outcome of W.P. No. 20558/2023 and to approval by the DCI or apex body.

Our Karnataka college pages carry the per-college fee alongside seats, cutoffs and hospital data, so you can weigh cost against the rank you actually hold.

Source: KEA college-wise fee structure for medical and dental courses 2026-27, published 17.08.2026. Dental per Government Order No. MED 207 RGU 2026 dated 14.08.2026; medical per MED 218 RGU 2026 dated 14.08.2026 and MED 213 RGU 2026 dated 13.08.2026.

The Karnataka Examinations Authority has published the mock seat allotment result for the first round of medical and dental seats, released after 4.00 pm on 17 August 2026. Options entered up to 9.00 am on 13 August 2026 were considered.

This is a mock result, not an allotment

No admission can be taken against a seat shown in the mock result. KEA states plainly that because candidates may change, add or delete options after seeing it, the seats shown in the mock allotment may or may not be available in the actual allotment. The actual result will be published later.

The purpose is to let you see where your rank currently lands and adjust before the real thing.

Dates that matter

• Change options: till 9.00 am on 20 August 2026. Options can be added, removed, changed or modified. Candidates who have not entered any medical or dental options can still enter them now.
• Clause-A and Clause-Y candidates: till 6.00 pm on 18 August 2026. Those who qualified in UGNEET but have not registered or enrolled their roll number can register or link within this window, then enter options after downloading the verification slip.

Why this round is combined

KEA facilitated combined option entry across UGCET and UGNEET courses, so seat allotment has been made for all courses together on the basis of merit and priority of options. Because medical and dental courses were merged with the UGCET courses, and because the MCC revised the All India Quota schedule, KEA has announced the mock result first for this round as well and is giving candidates a chance to change or add options.

KEA has also published college-wise, course-wise and category-wise cut-off ranks on its website alongside the mock result.

Our Karnataka cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category from previous years, which is the more reliable guide while the mock result is still provisional.

Source: KEA Note No. ED/KEA/UGCET-UGNEET/2026 dated 17.08.2026.

The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has published the NEET UG 2026 seat matrix for Karnataka state-quota MBBS and BDS admissions. It lists the category-wise seats in every participating college, which candidates use to plan their choices before locking their KEA options.

What the seat matrix shows

• Seats in each medical and dental college, split across the general, rural and Kannada-medium categories and the reserved categories (SC, ST, C-1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B) and special quotas (Hyderabad-Karnataka, GMP, NRI, minority, defence, PwD and others).
• The figures are the KEA state-quota share — the 15% All India Quota seats in each college are counselled separately by MCC.
• Newly added colleges appear this year, including G R Medical College Hospital & Research Centre. We have added the new colleges to our Karnataka college list so your rank check covers them.

Match the seat matrix against last year’s Karnataka MBBS closing ranks and BDS closing ranks, see the full list of Karnataka medical colleges, and use our college predictor to find the seats your rank can reach. Our Karnataka counselling guide explains the KEA process.

What to do now

• Read the seat matrix for the colleges you are targeting and note the seats in your category.
• Order your KEA choices by preference and lock them within the KEA schedule.
• Keep your category, rural, Kannada-medium and other supporting certificates ready for verification.

Official links

• KEA NEET UG 2026 MBBS seat matrix (PDF)
• KEA NEET UG 2026 BDS seat matrix (PDF)
• KEA official portal (cetonline.karnataka.gov.in)

Source: Karnataka Examinations Authority — NEET UG 2026 MBBS and BDS seat matrix, 7 August 2026 (cetonline.karnataka.gov.in).

The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has released the Karnataka NEET UG 2026 state merit list. It lists over 69,000 candidates who chose Karnataka in their NEET application, ranked by all-India NEET rank, and is available on cetonline.karnataka.gov.in.

What the list shows

• Each candidate’s serial number, NEET roll number, all-India rank and NEET (NBE) score.
• The list is compiled as received from the NTA and covers everyone who picked Karnataka as their state in the NEET application.
• Being on the list is not admission. Eligible candidates must separately enrol with KEA.

You must enrol with KEA

• Appearing in the merit list does not book a seat. To be considered for MBBS, BDS or AYUSH (Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathy) seats, you must register with KEA.
• Enrolment uses your NEET roll number on the KEA portal (cetonline.karnataka.gov.in).
• KEA will publish the information bulletin and document-verification details shortly. Read the UGCET-2026 / UGNEET-2026 information bulletin for eligibility and reservation rules.

Document and special-category dates

For newly registered candidates, at KEA, Bengaluru:

• Special-category certificate submission (NCC, Sports, Defence, Ex-Defence, Scouts & Guides, CAPF): 5 to 8 August 2026, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
• PWD medical examination: 5 August 2026, report at 9:30 am. Bring your BDA and audiology reports. Candidates already examined need not appear again.
• Kannada language test for Horanadu and Gadinadu candidates: 5 August 2026, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Candidates who took the CET Kannada exam on 22 April or 23 May 2026 need not appear again.

To judge where your rank stands, check last year’s Karnataka MBBS closing ranks and the list of Karnataka medical colleges, and use the college predictor to see which seats fit your rank. For the full state process, see our Karnataka counselling guide.

What to do now

• Check your name, roll number and all-India rank in the merit list on cetonline.karnataka.gov.in.
• Enrol with KEA using your NEET roll number; do not stop at the merit list.
• If you have a special-category, PWD or Kannada-language claim, complete the document step at KEA, Bengaluru on the dates above.
• Watch the KEA site for the information bulletin and verification schedule.

Official links

• Karnataka NEET UG 2026 state merit list (PDF)
• KEA notice: special-category, PWD and Kannada-test dates (PDF)
• KEA UG NEET 2026 page

Source: Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) — UG NEET 2026 state merit list (30 July 2026) and Notice No. ED/KEA/UGNEET/2026 dated 29 July 2026, cetonline.karnataka.gov.in.

St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru has released its MBBS admission bulletin for the academic year 2026-27. The bulletin, hosted on the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) website, sets out 150 sanctioned seats, the fee, the nine seat categories and who can apply. Admission is through KEA counselling, in line with the Government of India policy for minority institutions.

St John’s is a not-for-profit minority institution run by the Roman Catholic Church and affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS). If you are aiming for a seat here through Karnataka counselling, these are the numbers and rules that matter.

Seats and fee

• Total sanctioned MBBS seats: 150.
• Fee: Rs 8,11,110 per year, including RGUHS fees. Hostel fees are extra.
• Counselling body: Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA).

The nine seat categories

• All India General Open Merit — 10
• Institutional Staff Quota (Karnataka) — 10
• Roman Catholic Christian Religious (Nuns/Priests) — 25
• Roman Catholic Christian Tribals — 10
• Roman Catholic Christians of Scheduled Caste origin — 10
• Native (Local) North Indian Roman Catholic Christians — 10
• Roman Catholic Christians of Karnataka State — 10
• Roman Catholic Christians All India Open Merit — 55
• Karnataka State Open Merit — 10

The All India General Open Merit and Karnataka State Open Merit seats are open to all candidates, regardless of religion or community. If any seat in a reserved category stays vacant, it moves to the Roman Catholic Christians All India Open Merit category.

Who can apply

• You must have qualified in NEET UG 2026.
• You must be an Indian citizen and have studied in India for at least 7 continuous years, including Class 10 and Class 12. There is no NRI or OCI quota at St John’s.
• You must have completed 17 years of age on or before 31 December of the year of admission.
• You must have passed Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English, with a minimum of 50% aggregate in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. For SC, ST and OBC candidates of Karnataka, the minimum is 40%.

The social service bond

Selected candidates must sign a social obligation service bond. You agree to serve for two years in a designated hospital or health centre in a medically underserved area of the country. If you do not complete this service, the penalty is Rs 25,00,000, on top of the full course fee and bond penalty rules in the bulletin. Read this clause carefully before you accept a seat.

Verification note for St John’s claimants

KEA has said that candidates who claimed Category RC-2 to RC-8 in St John’s must appear in person for document verification at the Medical College Council Room, ground floor, St John’s Medical College, Koramangala, Bengaluru. Category RC-1 (All India General Open Merit) and Category RC-9 (Karnataka State Open Merit) candidates need not appear for this verification.

What to do now

• Confirm which category you fit before you fill your KEA options. The category decides both your fee eligibility and whether you must appear for verification.
• See St John’s full college profile and its past closing ranks, then run the college predictor to see where St John’s sits for your rank.
• Track every Karnataka round on our Karnataka counselling hub, and compare options in the Karnataka medical college list.

Related: Karnataka NEET UG 2026: roll number linking and document verification dates.

Source: St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru — MBBS Admission Bulletin 2026-2027 (dated 9 May 2026), hosted on the KEA website.

The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has opened the window to link your NEET UG 2026 roll number in the CET 2026 application. If you have already applied for UGCET 2026, you must enter your NEET roll number in the KEA portal by 11 am on 5 August 2026. The window opened at 7 pm on 30 July. There is no fresh registration for this step; you log in and add the roll number.

These steps decide whether you can take part in Karnataka’s medical, dental and AYUSH counselling. Miss the roll number linking and your KEA application stays incomplete. Skip a verification you were asked to do and your seat claim can be rejected later. Here is what to do, and by when.

Key dates at a glance

• Roll number linking: 30 July (7 pm) to 5 August (11 am) — enter your NEET UG 2026 roll number in the KEA portal login.
• Server downtime: the KEA servers will not work on 2 August, 8 am to 12 noon. Plan around it.
• Document verification slot booking: opens 2 August 2026 on the KEA website.
• Document verification dates: 4 August to 8 August 2026, only for candidates who book a slot.
• Special category certificate submission, PWD medical exam and Kannada language test: 5 August 2026 at KEA, Bangalore (details below).

Step 1: Link your NEET roll number

Candidates who already registered for UGCET 2026 should log in to the KEA portal and enter their NEET UG 2026 roll number. No fresh registration is allowed at this stage. After entering the roll number, download the application form and check that the printed NEET roll number is correct. Then download the UUGET application form from the KEA website.

Only candidates who scored the minimum qualifying marks in NEET UG 2026 can register for medical, dental, Ayurveda, Unani and Homoeopathy courses. The SC, ST and OBC eligibility applies only to SC, ST and OBC candidates of Karnataka.

Step 2: Check if you need document verification

Not everyone has to appear. KEA says documents have already been verified online for most candidates, so there is no separate UGCET verification for them.

You do NOT need verification if:

• You have already downloaded your verification slip. After entering the NEET roll number, download the verification slip again.
• You registered newly and have not claimed any reservation.

You DO need verification if you qualified in NEET UG 2026, registered with KEA, entered your roll number, and fall in one of these groups:

• NRI, NRI ward or Foreign National candidates who have made a claim.
• Candidates who registered for CET 2026 but could not download the verification slip because a Kannada, Rural or Linguistic/Religious Minority claim was not verified.
• Newly registered candidates with claims such as Kannada, Rural or Linguistic/Religious Minority.

The venue for these three groups is the Karnataka Examinations Authority, 18th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore.

Candidates who claimed Category RC-2 to RC-8 in St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore must appear at the Medical College Council Room, ground floor, St. John’s Medical College, Koramangala, Bengaluru. Category RC-1 and Category RC-9 candidates need not appear.

How to book your verification slot

Verification is in person only. No one can attend on your behalf. Book your slot using the “slot book” link on the KEA website from 2 August, then appear on your booked date between 4 August and 8 August. Before you go, read the information booklet dated 17 January 2026 on the KEA website for the list of original documents to carry.

Special category, PWD and Kannada test on 5 August

These apply mainly to newly registered Karnataka candidates and all happen on 5 August 2026 at KEA, Bangalore:

• Special category certificates (NCC, Sports, Defence, Ex-Defence, Scouts & Guides, CAPF, Ex-CAPF, AGL): submit between 10 am and 2 pm. For Karnataka candidates only.
• Medical examination for PWD candidates (newly registered): report at 9.30 am. ENT candidates should bring their BERA and Audio report. For Karnataka candidates only. Those who already appeared for the medical examination need not appear again.
• Kannada language test for Horanadu and Gadinadu Kannadiga candidates (newly registered): 11.30 am to 12.30 pm. Candidates who already took the Kannada test on 22 April or 23 May 2026 need not appear again.

What to do now

• Log in to the KEA portal and enter your NEET UG 2026 roll number before 11 am on 5 August. Do not leave it to the last hour.
• Avoid 2 August between 8 am and 12 noon; the servers will be down.
• Check whether you fall in a verification group. If yes, book your slot from 2 August and carry your original documents.
• While you wait, use our college predictor and study the Karnataka MBBS closing ranks so your KEA option entry is realistic.
• Follow every Karnataka round on our Karnataka counselling hub, and see the full list of Karnataka medical colleges.

Related: St John’s Medical College MBBS 2026-27: seats, fees and categories.

Source: Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) — UGNEET 2026 notices dated 29 July 2026: Linking of UGNEET Roll Number in CET-2026 Application; Verification of Documents for UGNEET-2026 Courses; Submission of Special Category Certificates for UGNEET-2026 Courses.

The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has extended the last date to register for the state’s medical, dental and AYUSH counselling to 30 July 2026. The window was first set to close on 24 July, and KEA reopened it after requests from candidates and parents who wanted more time to apply. The extension is aimed at students who have qualified in NEET UG 2026 but have not yet registered with KEA.

Who this is for

This registration is for admission to MBBS, BDS and the AYUSH courses (Ayurveda, Homoeopathy and Unani) in Karnataka, under KEA’s notification No. ED/KEA/ADMN/CR-11/2026 dated 16 July 2026. Two situations apply:

• If you have not registered with KEA for CET-2026: use the “UGNEET-2026 new registration” link on the KEA portal, fill the application and pay the fee. This is the group the extended 30 July deadline is for.
• If you already registered for CET-2026: you do not apply again. KEA opens a separate link to add your NEET roll number to your existing application, so no fresh registration is needed.

Candidates from outside Karnataka can also register, pay the fee and enter their Class 12 marks. OCI, PIO, NRI and foreign-national candidates, and anyone claiming an NRI-ward, religious-minority or RC-2 to RC-8 seat at St. John’s Medical College, have to appear at KEA, Bengaluru for document verification.

What happens after you register

KEA has said it has not yet received the NEET UG 2026 result data needed for the next stage. Once that data arrives, registered candidates will get a link to enter their NEET roll number, and document verification will follow. The minimum qualifying marks and the category eligibility rules, which for SC, ST and OBC seats apply only to Karnataka candidates, will be confirmed after the results are published. If you miss the 30 July date, no new registration is allowed later except at the Stray Vacancy Round.

What to do now

If you want a Karnataka MBBS, BDS or AYUSH seat and have not registered, apply at the KEA portal, cetonline.karnataka.gov.in, before the 30 July cut-off; check the portal for the exact closing time on the day. Keep your Class 12 marks memo and NEET details ready. Our Karnataka medical colleges page lists every college with its cutoffs, fees and seat details to help you plan your choices while you wait for the result data.

Source: KEA Notification No. ED/KEA/ADMN/CR-11/2026, 16 July 2026, and KEA’s 24 July press statement extending the last date to 30 July 2026.