The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) plans to conduct counselling for the Common Entrance Test (CET) and the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) simultaneously in August, to avoid the problem of the withdrawal of engineering and other course seats.
Last year, owing to COVID-19 and other reasons, the National Testing Agency (NTA) delayed conducting the NEET and announced the NEET results in October. This led to aspirants of medical courses selecting engineering and other professional course seats in the counselling held by the KEA in October, for the CET-2021 rank holders.
After the NEET-2021 results were announced, around 800 students who got engineering and other professional courses in the CET counselling, cancelled their admission and went to the NEET counselling and joined the medical courses. This resulted in a loss of seats for other professional courses aspirants.
