How to Do Choice Entry in KCET 2025 - Step-by-Step Guide for Option Entry
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How to Do Choice Entry in KCET 2025 - Step-by-Step Guide for Option Entry

Jalla VenkateshUpdated on 08 Sep 2025, 12:40 PM IST

How to do choice entry in KCET 2025: KEA will conclude the KCET phase 3 option entry on September 8, 2025. The KCET 2025 round 3 choice entry link is activated on the official website, cetonline.karnataka.gov.in. To access the choice entry, candidates need their CET number. Once logged in, Candidates can select and prioritise as many colleges and courses as they wish from the dropdowns, arrange them in order of preference, and submit their choice based on their preferences and expected cutoff trends. The authority has concluded the KCET 2025 round 2 choice entry on August 26, 2025. The authority is conducting the KCET 2025 counselling online. Read on to learn how to complete the KCET 2025 choice entry process.
Direct Link for KCET 3rd Round Option Entry 2025.

This Story also Contains

  1. KCET 2025 Choice Entry Date
  2. How to do choice entry in KCET 2025?
  3. Documents required for KCET 2025 choice filling
  4. Instructions to the candidates who have NOT been allotted a seat for KCET
How to Do Choice Entry in KCET 2025 - Step-by-Step Guide for Option Entry
How to do choice entry in KCET 2025

KCET 2025 Choice Entry Date

The authority has announced the KCET 2025 choice entry dates on the official website. Candidates can check the choice entry in the KCET 2025 dates in the table below.

KCET 2025 Choice Entry Dates Round 2

EventDate
Exercising choices after round 1 seat allotmentSeptember 2025 August 4 to 7, 2025; August 14, 2025
Last date for reporting to the allotted collegesAugust 14, 2025 August 15, 2025
Display of the seat matrix for round 2August 20, 2025
Round 2 option entry start dateAugust 21, 2025
Last date for KCET 2025 option entry round 2August 25, 2025 August 26, 2025
Seat allotment result - Round 2 (Provisional)August 29, 2025
KCET 2025 final seat allotment for round 2September 6 to 8, 2025
Exercising choices for KCET round 2 seat allotment (Extended)September 2025
Payment of fees by choice 1 or 2 candidates (Extended)September 2025
Downloading of admission offers by choice 1 candidate (Extended)September 2025
Last date for reporting to the allotted colleges (Extended)September 2025

How to do choice entry in KCET 2025?

The step-by-step guide for KCET 2025 choice entry can be found below.

  • Visit the official website.

  • Select the option entry link

  • Entry your KCET 2025 login credentials using your QR code and CET number

  • The choice entry form will be displayed on the screen.

  • After the successful entry, the choice entry link will be deactivated.

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Documents required for KCET 2025 choice filling

  • KCET 2025 hall ticket

  • KCET 2025 rank card

  • Class 10 to 12 marks Marksheet and Memos

  • Kannada Medium certification

  • Aadhar Card

  • Caste and Income Certificate issued by the Local government body, like the Tahsildhar

  • Parents' Study certificate to prove parents' domicile

  • Duly sworn-in affidavit of the candidates if they want to claim eligibility under the Horanadu and Gadinadu Kannadiga clauses C and D

  • NCC/Sports/ Defence Certificate, if available

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Instructions to the candidates who have NOT been allotted a seat for KCET

  • Candidates need not exercise any choice entry.

  • After the commencement of the process of the second round option entry, the candidates should log in and agree to the terms and conditions.

  • Only after logging to the option entry portal, and agreeing to the terms and conditions candidate is allowed to alter/modify/reorder/delete the already entered options as per his/her choice.

  • If the candidate likes to participate with an un-allotted seat in the second round, then he/she has to pay the caution deposit. (Schedule will be published to pay the Caution Deposit and please read the instructions about caution deposit payment).
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: How to do KCET 2025 option entry online?
A:

Candidates can complete the KCET 2025 option entry through the official website.

Q: How to lock choices in KCET 2025?
A:

Candidates must link on save and submit buttons before the option entry deadline to lock their choices.

Q: Is the KCET Option entry extended?
A:

Yes, the authority has extended the KCET 2025 round 2 option entry to August 26, 1:00 PM.

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Questions related to KCET

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Have a question related to KCET ?

Hello aspirant,

The Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) releases broad cutoffs every year, although the KCET engineering cutoff varies greatly depending on the particular engineering branch, college, and candidate category.  For instance, OBC cutoffs may be approximately 3,000, SC/ST categories may reach 15,000 or higher in elite universities, and general cutoffs for top Computer Science programs may be less than 1,000.

For more information, you can visit our site through following link:

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/kcet-cutoff

Thank you

If you joined an engineering college through KCET 2025 and completed around 3 months but now want to leave due to personal reasons, then you can definitely discontinue. However, you need to follow a proper procedure because the seat was allotted by KEA. First, you have to visit your present college and apply for official discontinuation. The college will ask you to submit a written application, no-dues form, and sometimes they may also ask for payment of fee balance as per their policies. After this, the college will issue a Transfer Certificate (TC), study certificate (if applicable), and a fee receipt acknowledgment.

Once you discontinue, your current KCET-allotted seat will get cancelled. If you want to join another engineering college next year, you must appear for KCET again or take admission through the management quota, because the old KCET seat cannot be transferred. There is no penalty from KEA side for writing KCET again next year, so you can attempt the entrance exam once more and participate in counselling to get a new seat in your preferred college.

So, the correct process is:

  1. Submit a discontinuation request to your current college.

  2. Clear no-dues and collect TC and supporting documents.

  3. Appear for KCET next year if you want another government/KEA seat.

  4. Attend counselling again and choose a new college.

Taking this step early will avoid creating academic loss later and you will be able to join a better college comfortably next year. All the best.

Hello,

For VITEEE, focus only on your VITEEE exam score and rank. KCET marks are irrelevant. To qualify, ensure 60% in Class 12 PCM/PCB and aim for a rank under 25,000 for good branches.

To know more details access below mentioned link:

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Hope it helps.

Hello,
If you want to apply for VITEEE at Vellore, you need to appear for the VITEEE entrance exam. The exam can be taken at designated exam centers, and it is not necessary to write it only at the Vellore campus. You can choose an exam center that is convenient for you while filling the application form. Admission will be based on your performance in this entrance exam.
Hope this helps you.

Hi Vinay

KCET Exam (Karnataka Common Entrance Exam) is a state-level examination which helps 12th-class students get admission in undergraduate courses like technology, engineering and pharmacy and agriculture courses in Karnataka colleges.

If you want to prepare for the KCET exam-

  1. Read the KCET exam syllabus
  2. Understand the exam pattern
  3. Complete the syllabus with the help of the NCERT book
  4. Fill the form and make a strategy for revision
  5. Try to do a lot of mock tests & manage time so that you have time to do revision.

If you didn't have much time to prepare the whole syllabus. Try to complete important topics which have high weightage in the exam.

You can also prepare for the exam on our official website, careers360. If you know more about the exam, I've attached the link. You can get an article from our website, careers360.

Here is the link- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/how-crack-kcet

I hope this will help you.

Best Wishes.