Kerala NEET Counselling 2024: Special Stray Vacancy Round Result (Out), Institute Reporting (Till December 28), Dates, Registration (Over)

The official website of the Kerala NEET counselling 2024 is the same as that of its conducting authority, which is cee.kerala.gov.in. All the important information, notifications and registration links are provided within this website. Upon visiting the CEE Kerala website, candidates will have to visit the KEAM portal, where information for the Kerala NEET counselling are provided. 

The Kerala NEET UG counselling 2024 registration process for the special stray vacancy round is being conducted from December 23 to December 24, 2024. The stray vacancy round was conducted from October 25 to October 27, 2024. Originally, the application process for Kerala NEET 2024 counselling had started on March 27, 2024. The last date of registration was extended till April 19, 5 PM, from April 17, and the documents had to be uploaded by April 24, 2024. Candidates had to register for the Kerala NEET counselling as part of KEAM 2024 registration. KEAM or the Kerala Engineering, Agricultural and Medical Entrance Exam is conducted by the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations (CEE), Government of Kerala. Only those candidates who have registered for NEET 2024 will be eligible to participate in the Kerala NEET counselling 2024 for admission to medical and allied courses.  

 Kerala NEET counselling is the admission gateway for the following medical courses:

• MBBS
• BDS
• BAMS
• BUMS
• BSMS
• BHMS 

The Kerala NEET counselling process is conducted by the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations (CEE), Kerala. It is the state-level admission authority for Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical and other streams in the state of Kerala. CEE Kerala conducts the counselling process for medical, pharmaceutical and allied courses. While the registration process for the Kerala NEET 2024 counselling has already started, even before the conduct of the NEET UG exam, The application dates is same for the KEAM exam application dates. However, the other processes of the Kerala NEET counselling, such as release of merit list, choice filling and seat allotment result are done by CEE Kerala after the declaration of the result. 

The scheule for the Kerala NEET counselling 2024 Round 3 is dated from October 9 to October 23, 2024. The registration process for Kerala NEET counselling 2024 was conducted in two phases. Originally, the process started on March 27, 2024, and the last date of registration was extended till April 19, from April 17. The second phase of registration opened on June 13 and the last date to submit or modify applications was June 23, 2024, 6 PM. The NEET 2024 scores had to be submitted on the CEE Kerala portal by August 12, 2024, 4 PM. The option registration or choice filling had to be done from August 21 to August 26, 2024. The provisional seat allotment result was declared on August 28, 2024.

No, CEE does not accept the scores of any other entrance test for admission to MBBS, BDS and AYUSH courses. Admissions through Kerala NEET counselling will be based on the marks obtained in NEET UG exam only.

The Kerala NEET counselling process involves six steps in total. The step by step procedure to participate in the Kerala NEET counselling process is given below. 

• Registration: The first and foremost step is to register or apply for the Kerala NEET counselling process. In general, CEE Kerala starts the application process even before the NEET exam is conducted. It is a completely online process wherein candidates have to visit the official website of CEE Kerala, or Kerala NEET and complete the registration and application process. 
• Uploading NEET scores: After the declaration of the NEET result, CEE Kerala will open the counselling portal to upload candidates' NEET scores. 
• Merit list: After the submission of NEET scores, CEE Kerala will release the merit list for Kerala NEET counselling, It will consist of the list of eligible candidates.
• Choice filling: Participants will have to fill the choice of courses and colleges which they wish to take admission to. 
• Seat allotment result: Based on the choices filled by candidates, CEE Kerala will release the seat allotment result.
• Institute reporting: Candidates who wish to take admission to the allotted institutes, will have to report to the institutes, or the given venue mentioned by the counselling authorities with the requisite documents. 

Eligible candidates willing to participate in the Kerala NEET UG counselling process will have to fill and lock the choice of seats based on the seat matrix. If a candidate fulfills the cutoff or admission criteria of the institute of their choice, they will be allotted the seats. The factors which are considered for the seat allotment are cutoff and availability of seats.

Yes, after the declaration of the Kerala NEET UG counselling seat allotment result, candidates will be given the option to upgrade the seat choice. Based on that, the counselling authorities will upgrade the seats based on the choices entered by candidates, in case the desired seat is vacant after the institute reporting process is concluded.

Candidates will have to fulfill the following eligibility criteria to participate in the Kerala NEET counselling process.

• Candidates must have passed or appeared for the Class 12 Board exam with Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Biotechnology with a minimum 50 percent aggregate (General) or 40 percent aggregate (SC, ST, OBC, Reserved PWD) or 45 per cent (General-PWD).
• Appear for the NEET 2024 exam.
• Candidates must belong to Kerala, or fulfill the Non-Keralite conditions.

Yes, candidates can participate in both the national level NEET counselling for the 15 per cent All India Quota (AIQ) seats and the 85 per cent State Quota seats. However, if a candidate has already joined an institute, then he or she will no longer be eligible to participate in other state/national level counselling. Moreover, they will also not be eligible to participate for the next round of NEET state counselling once they join an institute.

Yes, only those candidates who will qualify for NEET will be eligible to apply for Kerala NEET counselling process. NTA and MCC will send the list of qualifying candidates to each state counselling authorities. The Commissioner of Entrance Exams (CEE) Kerala, the counselling authority of the state will release the merit list, which will carry the names of candidates who have qualified for NEET and eligible to participate in the Kerala NEET counselling process.  

For admission to MBBS, BDS and other medical or allied courses, candidates must appear for the NEET UG exam. Appearing for KEAM is not necessary to participate in the Kerala NEET counselling process. Although a common registration process is conducted for KEAM and the medical admission, the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations (CEE) Kerala has stated that for admission to MBBS, BDS and allied courses, applicants must appear and qualify for NEET.

The application fee for Medical and allied courses for General and SC category candidates is INR 625 and INR 250 respectively. There is no application fee for ST category candidates. The application fee has to be paid in online mode only, which includes Credit Card, Debit Card or Net Banking.

No, candidates had to register online to participate in the Kerala NEET counselling process. The counselling process including the registration, choice filling and locking, as well as the seat allotment result will be declared on the official website of CEE Kerala. However, the final step, which is the document verification and the admission fee payment process will be conducted in an offline manner, where candidates will have to visit the institutes for the verification and admission process.

As per the Kerala NEET counselling seat matrix shared by CEE Kerala last year, there were  as many as 3,182 MBBS seats and 2,077 BDS seats offered through the State Quota. The number may undergo change this year and the data will be updated here on this page.

The average annual fee for MBBS course in a government medical college of Kerala is around INR 25,000. On the other hand, the average annual fee for MBBS course in a private medical college of Kerala is around INR 6,00,000. The fee aount mentioned here is based on last year's fee amount. The amount may get changed this year. 

Nearly 60 per cent of the total state quota seats will be allotted to open category students in Kerala NEET counselling. While allotting seats, CEE, or the Kerala NEET counselling authority will consider the reservation criteria of the state while allotting seats to candidates who will exercise their choices.