With the counselling for medical and dental seats yet to begin, a majority of the candidates who have appeared for CET counselling have decided to take the seat but also want to participate in the next round for “better”.
After the first round of counselling, 38,700 candidates have exercised option 2, which the Karnataka Examinations Authority advised candidates — who were waiting for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test counselling — to exercise. This is the highest chosen among the four options that KEA allows candidates to exercise.
Several medical and dental seat aspirants also wrote CET and have chosen engineering seats as the number of medical and dental seats is limited. Supriya K., a candidate who hopes to bag a medical seat, said: “Earlier, candidates would choose engineering if they did not get medical seats. But over the past two years, we have been in a dilemma as seat allotment for engineering is done first.”
Several top engineering colleges have complained that their seats go vacant as many candidates who get medical or dental seats leave the college.
As per schedule, the second round of counselling for engineering, agriculture and veterinary sciences is from Tuesday but the counselling process for medical and dental seats is yet to be chalked out. Candidates are urging KEA to announce the schedule of NEET counselling and conduct it along with the second round. On Sunday, KEA published the provisional list of Karnataka candidates who appeared for NEET.
