KEAM Counselling 2025: Date, Registration, Centralised Allotment Process (CAP), Category-Wise Reservation

KEAM Counselling 2025: Candidates who qualified the KEAM exam and make it to the KEAM rank list, will be eligible to appear in the Centralised Allotment Process (CAP), which is conducted by CEE, Kerala.

Twinkle GuptaUpdated on : Oct 03 2024 11:33 IST

KEAM Counselling 2025

KEAM Counselling 2025: CEE Kerala will start the KEAM counselling registration process in online mode. As per last year's trends, it is expected that the Kerala KEAM counselling process will begin in July 2025. Last year, the Centralised Allotment process was started on July 29. Candidates who are qualified for admission to Engineering & Pharmacy courses 2025 are eligible for the counselling rounds. The detailed schedule for the KEAM counselling will be available on the official website - cee.kerala.gov.in.

Last year, the KEAM exam was conducted from June 5 to 10, 2024, in CBT mode. The Kerala KEAM counselling process consists of registration, choice filling, seat allotment, and reporting to the allotted institutes. Registered candidates will be allotted seats as per their ranks and the availability of the seats.

KEAM Counselling 2025 Schedule

The Kerala KEAM counselling 2025 dates will be notified on the official website. Meanwhile, candidates can check the last year's detailed schedule for the KEAM 1st and 2nd phase seat allotment 2024 given in the table below -

KEAM 1st Phase Seat Allotment Dates

Events (Phase 1)	Dates (As per session 2023-24)
Opening of the website for online option registration	July 29
Closure of online option registration facility	August 5 (11 am)
Trial allotment	August 4
Provisional Allotment Publication	August 7
First Phase Allotment Publication	August 8
Candidates who get allotment shall have to pay the fees to the CEE Kerala as shown in the allotment memo through online payment or through Head Post Office	August 8 to 12 (4 pm)

KEAM 2nd Phase Seat Allotment Dates

Events	Dates (As per session 2023-24)
Facility for online option confirmation and re-arrangement of higher options/deletion of unwanted options and registration of fresh options to the newly added courses/ colleges (including Architecture) starts	August 13
Time for online option confirmation and re-arrangement/ deletion/ addition of options/ option registration in newly included colleges including Architecture ends	August 16 (11.59 pm)
Publication of second phase provisional allotment to Engineering/ Pharmacy courses Publication of First phase provisional allotment to Architecture courses	August 19
Publication of second phase allotment to Engineering/ Pharmacy courses Publication of First phase allotment to Architecture courses	August 20
Candidates who got allotment in Engineering/ Pharmacy courses in the second phase shall have to physically join the allotted colleges by paying the applicable fees	August 21 to 27 (3 pm)
Candidates who got allotted in Architecture course in the first phase shall have to physically join the allotted colleges by paying the applicable fees	August 21 to 24 (3 pm)

KEAM Counselling 2025 Registration Fees

Candidates who wish to remit options need to make the payment of the KEAM counselling 2025 registration fee of Rs 2,000. The registration fee will be adjusted in the tuition fee of those candidates who take admission consequent on allotments. Candidates can check the detailed fee structure for Engineering and Pharmacy courses in the pdf link provided below.

KEAM Engineering and Pharmacy Counselling Notice (Last year)- Download PDF

KEAM Seat Allotment 2025

Candidates whose names are included in the KEAM Rank List of the various professional courses will be eligible to participate in the KEAM Centralised Allotment Process (CAP). The KEAM seat allotments will be done strictly on the basis of the following factors:

Course-college options submitted by the candidate
Candidate’s rank in the KEAM entrance exam
KEAM Reservation Criteria

Note: Candidates should submit only those options which they are sure to join if allotted.

Step 1: Registering Options

Candidates can register their options by following the below-mentioned steps:

Visit the official website of CEE Kerala
Log into the candidate portal using your application number and password
Click on the ‘Option Registration’ link
Pay the requisite option registration fee
Register your course/college options
Save the registered options
Preview and make changes in your registered options, if required
Take a printout of the registered options
Lastly, log out from the candidate portal to ensure the safety of your account

Note: Candidates can rearrange their registered options any number of times within the stipulated time.

Step 2: Trial Allotment

Before the closure of the option registration process, CEE will conduct trial allotment during the 1st phase of allotment
Trial allotment is done to give the candidates an idea about their chances of getting into a particular college or course, on the basis of their rank and registered choices
However, trial allotment does not guarantee that a particular course or college will be allotted to a candidate

Step 3: Final Allotment

After the completion of the option registration process, the final seat allotment details will be released by CEE
Candidates can download their KEAM allotment memo by logging into the candidate portal
The allotment memo will contain details about the college allotted to the candidate and the payable course fee

Step 4: Seat Confirmation & Subsequent Allotment Rounds

After receiving the seat allotment, candidates can either accept the allotted seat or they can participate in the subsequent allotment rounds
If a candidate is satisfied with their seat allotment, they will have to report to the college allotted to them and complete the admission formalities
In case a candidate fails to pay the requisite fee or join the college, they will lose the seat allotted to them and also the existing options in the relevant stream
Seat options once lost will not be available in the subsequent allotment phases
When a seat is allotted to a candidate, all previous allotments stand cancelled
If a candidate wishes to participate in the subsequent counselling rounds, they will have to log in to their option registration page and confirm their options by clicking on the “confirm” button

Note: After each round of allotment, the last rank details will be released on the official CEE website.

KEAM Counselling 2025 Procedure

Candidates can check the flowchart describing KEAM counselling 2025 process to get the better understanding.

KEAM Counselling 2025 Procedure

What after KEAM counselling 2025?

After the final seat allotment, candidates must report to their respective institutes, get their documents verified, and complete the admission formalities. If a candidate fails to pay the required fee/report to the institute within the stipulated time, they will lose their allotment.

KEAM Admission 2025: Post-Allotment Activities

Once the candidate has received their final allotment and are satisfied with it, they will be required to follow the mentioned procedure to complete the KEAM admission process:

Step 1: Reporting at the College

After receiving the final allotment, candidates have to report to their institute on the notified dates with the following documents:

Certificate to prove date of birth
Transfer Certificate and Conduct Certificate from the Institution last attended
Original mark list of the qualifying examination (Higher Secondary or equivalent)
Pass certificate of the qualifying examination (if issued)
Eligibility certificate from any University in Kerala, in case the candidate has passed a qualifying examination other than the Higher Secondary Examination/ Vocational Higher Secondary Examination conducted by the Government of Kerala or the examination conducted by CBSE and CISCE
Migration Certificate (if applicable)
Physical Fitness Certificate in the relevant format
Receipt of fee remitted
Date sheet of KEAM 2024
Admit card of NEET-UG 2024 (if applicable)
Allotment Memo issued by the CEE
Any other documents required in the Allotment Memo
Originals of all the documents and certificates uploaded with the online application

Step 2: Document Verification

The head of the respective Institutes will be responsible for verifying the documents produced by the candidate at the time of admission.

Step 3: Pay the Tuition Fee

Candidates must pay the required fee/balance fee at the time of admission to the college
If a candidate fails to pay the fee, they will lose their allotment and also the existing options in their chosen stream

KEAM Reservation Criteria 2025

The percentage break-up of seats as per mandatory reservation has been given below:

S.No	Category	Percentage of Seats Reserved
1)	State Merit (SM)	50%
2)	Economically Weaker Sections in General Category (EWS)	10%
3)	Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC)	30%
a)	Ezhava (EZ)	9%
b)	Muslim (MU)	8%
c)	Other Backward Hindu (BH)	3%
d)	Latin Catholic and Anglo-Indian (LA)	3%
e)	Dheevara and related communities (DV)	2%
f)	Viswakarma and related communities (VK)	2%
g)	Kusavan and related communities (KN)	1%
h)	Other Backward Christian (BX)	1%
i)	Kudumbi (KU)	1%
4)	Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes	10%
a)	Scheduled Castes (SC)	8%
b)	Scheduled Tribes (ST)	2%

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

When will the KEAM 2025 counselling process begin?

The CEE Kerala will announce the dates for the KEAM 2025 counselling process on its official website.

On what basis are the seats allotted to the candidates?

KEAM seat allotment is done strictly on the basis of the following factors: course-college options submitted by the candidate, candidate’s rank in the KEAM entrance exam and KEAM reservation criteria.