Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka Undergraduate Entrance Test(COMEDK UGET)

About the exam

About COMEDK UGET

COMEDK UGET is not a government exam, and despite the name on it the test no longer reaches a medical, dental or architecture seat. The Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka is a private body entrusted with the job by two college associations, and the paper it sets each May decides merit for the B.E. seats its own member colleges hand over to it. A B.Arch aspirant does not sit it at all: COMEDK runs the architecture counselling but conducts no architecture entrance test. Who the rank is worth something to, who allots the seat and what the route costs at each step all follow from that ownership.

COMEDK calls itself an autonomous merit determination authority of senior academicians and administrative officers, entrusted with the job by two associations: KPCF, the Karnataka Professional Colleges Foundation (Medical & Dental), and KUPECA, the Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association (COMEDK UGET 2026 information brochure).

The site has not been tidied to match that name. It still publishes a medical college list and a dental one, and its member institutions page still files colleges under four separate headings. The medical and dental lists are history rather than scope: after NEET was mandated as the only acceptable entrance exam for admission to medical and dental courses in the country, COMEDK says it continues the evaluation process for the members of KUPECA, around 150+ engineering colleges (information brochure).

Architecture is the harder trap, because there COMEDK really does run the counselling. It sets no paper for it. The brochure puts the rule in one line, under the architecture eligibility heading: "There shall be no Entrance Test conducted by COMEDK for candidates seeking admission to B. Arch Course." A candidate who registers for UGET on the strength of the word Architecture appearing on the site has bought a test they will never use, and the same section says so outright, telling candidates interested only in architecture that they need not fill the engineering entrance exam form at all (eligibility for UG architecture courses).

The brochure is equally blunt about reach: the test "is being conducted for merit determination of Institutions participating in COMEDK process only and other institutions that have been expressly permitted in this behalf", and the 2026 test scores were valid only for admissions during the academic year 2026-27 (scope of COMEDK UGET 2026). The arrangement rests on the Supreme Court rulings in TMA Pai Foundation, Islamic Academy of Education and P.A. Inamdar, which allow institutions imparting the same professional education to join together for a common entrance test satisfying the triple tests of being fair, transparent and non-exploitative (COMEDK notification of the UG entrance test date).

Where the government route begins, COMEDK's counselling document draws the line in a single sentence: there is no seat reservation in COMEDK for SC, ST or OBC candidates, because the State Government "has taken the responsibility to identify and provide reservation to these candidates within the seats transferred to the Govt" (COMEDK counselling process document 2026). A UGET rank buys a place in the queue for the seats the private colleges kept. What happens to the seats they transferred to the Government is the Government's process, and the consortium says plainly that it is not theirs.

At a glance

COMEDK UGET highlights

Calendar

Important dates

Every date in the table below has already passed. COMEDK notified the exam date on 08.01.2026 (notification of the UG entrance test date); the calendar of events then took the cycle from the opening of applications in February to the release of rank and score cards at the end of May, which closed the examination half of it.

The May date moved for a reason COMEDK states itself. Since inception it has held the test on the second Sunday of May every year, and the schedule "had to be altered" for 2026 because of a conflict of date with another national level examination, which is how 09 May 2026 landed on a Saturday (notification of the UG entrance test date).

One caution about reading the dates off any single page. The information brochure is version 1.0, notified on 03 February 2026, and its calendar was never reissued, so it still shows the original 16 March last date (information brochure). The site's calendar of events carries two extensions past that, to 20 March and then to 23 March at 4 PM, while the FAQ lower down that same page still answers 16 March (COMEDK UGET 2026 exam details). Both calendars end on the same footnote, which is also the tie-break: the schedule is subject to change, and the website is where the latest version lives.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Two rule sets sit side by side in the brochure, one numbered for engineering and one for architecture, and they disagree on enough that reading the wrong one costs a candidate the cycle. For UG engineering, the brochure sets out every one of these conditions (information brochure):

• Indian citizens, Overseas Citizens of India and Persons of Indian Origin may appear, with OCI and PIO candidates filing a declaration during counselling registration.
• The qualifying exam is second PUC, 10+2 higher secondary or a State or Central Government recognised equivalent, and its final two years must carry Physics, Mathematics and English, plus one optional subject drawn from Chemistry, Biotechnology, Biology, Computer Science or Electronics.
• General Merit candidates need a minimum aggregate of 45% in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, relaxed to 40% for SC, ST and OBC candidates of Karnataka State, and must have passed those subjects individually.
• Every individual subject must be passed, optional and additional subjects included, and all of them from one single board. The brochure's own example refuses a candidate carrying Physics and Chemistry from CBSE and Mathematics from NIOS.
• A candidate who scores zero marks is assigned no rank.
• Diploma holders are not eligible to take the test, because there is no lateral entry. The brochure's own FAQ supplies the other half of that rule: diploma candidates are however eligible for architecture courses.

Two more bars sit in the counselling document rather than the brochure, under a heading that binds engineering and architecture alike. Qualifying boards are listed explicitly and reach beyond Indian school boards: the two-year Joint Services Wing course of the National Defence Academy, GCE Advanced Level with minimum passes in 2 of 3 subjects, the Cambridge High School certificate, an International Baccalaureate Diploma with minimum passes in 6 subjects (3 HL and 3 SL) carrying 24 points, any examination the Association of Indian Universities recognises as equivalent to 10+2, and National Open School senior secondary with a minimum of five subjects. Candidates below 17 years as on December 31 2026 upload a separate declaration (counselling process document 2026).

Architecture runs on its own rules, and the first of them is that the aptitude test is somebody else's. Every candidate seeking B.Arch admission, Karnataka SC, ST and OBC candidates included, has to qualify in an architecture aptitude test conducted either by NATA, which the Council of Architecture runs, or by JEE, which NTA runs, and only those scores count towards the merit list alongside the qualifying examination marks. Passing some other architecture aptitude test does not substitute; the brochure says such candidates shall also be required to qualify NATA or JEE (information brochure). The counselling document is exact about which sittings are accepted, asking at document verification for a NATA 2025 or NATA 2026 score card, or a JEE 2026 Paper 2A score card, or both where applicable (counselling process document 2026).

The school-side bar differs too, and it is the looser of the two. Engineering wants Physics, Mathematics and English with Chemistry or one of four science alternatives beside them; architecture fixes only Physics and Mathematics and then opens the remaining slot to Chemistry, Biology, a technical vocational subject, Computer Science, Information Technology, Informatics Practices, Engineering Graphics or Business Studies. The aggregate asked for is the same 45%, or 40% for SC, ST and OBC candidates of Karnataka. And a 10+3 diploma carrying Mathematics at those percentages qualifies here, which is the route the engineering rules shut outright. Two consequences follow from COMEDK setting no paper: a B.Arch candidate files a separate application form for counselling as notified on the site, and a candidate interested only in architecture need not fill the engineering entrance exam form at all (information brochure).

Step by step

Application process and fee

Registration is online only, at comedk.org and unigauge.com, and printed copies sent by post are not accepted (information brochure). The sequence COMEDK prints starts before the form and does not stop at the result: read the brochure and watch the application video, register for a user ID and password, complete the application form with payment, take the mock tests, log back in during the edit window, download the Test Admission Ticket, sit the exam, check the score and download the rank card, then attend counselling as scheduled.

The fee depends on whether you want the Uni-GAUGE E score as well.

Transaction charges are not a rounding error on top of that. Card payments carry between 1.05% and 1.15% of the transaction amount depending on the card, plus GST, and net banking between Rs 18 and Rs 45 depending on the bank, plus GST (fee details). The fee is non-refundable under any circumstance including judicial and other statutory reasons, and the COMEDK and Uni-GAUGE fees are treated as independent of each other, so a claim on one goes to that agency alone.

Editing is deliberately narrow. The window ran from 10 April to 13 April in 2026, and it never covers applicant name, email id, mobile number or test city preference (change request and editing of application). A candidate who has already submitted can only start a fresh application on a different mobile number and email id, paying again, and the brochure's FAQ attaches a warning to that route: there is the danger of multiple applications being rejected (applying more than once).

Before the exam

Admit card and exam day

The Test Admission Ticket lives in the applicant login and nowhere else. No copy is dispatched by email, post, courier or in person, printing stays available until the exam day itself, and the TAT is disabled from the login on that day, so a candidate who has not saved it has no route back to it (information brochure).

What a candidate carries past the baggage area is a short list: the printed TAT, the original ID proof named in the application form, 2 passport size photographs, a pencil and a personal transparent water bottle (COMEDK and Uni-GAUGE standard operating procedure). The brochure adds the specification that catches people out: those photographs must be recent colour prints, the same image uploaded with the application, and the candidate's name and TAT number must be written on the back of each (instructions for test takers).

The clock is tight at the gate. COMEDK recommends reporting 90 minutes before the test, opens the examination hall 60 minutes before, and refuses entry after the reporting time printed on the TAT, with no re-examination held under any circumstances for a candidate who cannot appear on the scheduled date (instructions for test takers). Session and centre are allotted by a computer assisted randomisation process and cannot be chosen. Biometric recording may be taken before and during the test, again during counselling and again at the college, and any mismatch disqualifies the candidate. A photograph older than three months, or a smudged or hazy one, is itself listed as a ground for disqualification.

Structure

Exam pattern

The paper is computer based only and is mandatory for every candidate seeking admission to B.E. courses in the participating institutions, with the merit rank generated on the entrance test score alone (information brochure). English is the sole medium.

Two things the pattern table does not settle are worth knowing in advance. The exam may be conducted in multiple sessions, with different sets of questions per session, which is why a raw score is not what a candidate finally carries into counselling. And the date and time column prints no start time at all: it tells candidates to attend as per the slot mentioned on their TAT, and adds that requests to change test city or slot will not be entertained (test pattern).

On screen, the interface is the one the brochure describes (guidelines for computer based test): four options per question clicked with the mouse, a countdown timer, a question palette down the right side showing the status of each question, a mark-for-review flag, and the ability to shuffle between sections and change an answer any number of times before the session ends. If a machine fails, the candidate is moved to a buffer system and the server's per-second record is used to restore the lost time.

What to study

Syllabus

The entrance test is based on the CBSE syllabus, weighted towards the senior year: Class 11 contributes about 33% and Class 12 about 67% (syllabus, COMEDK UGET 2026).

COMEDK publishes a separate subject-wise syllabus document for each paper, and each one names the exact board-year edition it is drawn from rather than pointing vaguely at "class 11 and 12". The Physics syllabus runs from Physical World and Measurement in the Class 11 list through to Electronic Devices in the Class 12 list; Mathematics opens at Sets and Functions and closes at Probability; Chemistry begins with Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry and works through the standard physical, inorganic and organic blocks. English appears nowhere in the syllabus documents, because it is the medium of the paper rather than a tested subject.

How to prepare

Preparation and books

Read what COMEDK claims for its own mock test before building anything around it, because most of that description is a disclaimer. As many as 11 different mock tests are made available before the final examination, only to candidates whose payment has gone through. COMEDK states plainly that the mock test does not reflect the actual test pattern or syllabus, that the candidate cannot see a score in it, and that it exists only to familiarise them with the computer based format, adding that candidates should check correct answers with their professors or teachers (mock test, COMEDK UGET 2026).

The computer skill the exam actually demands is small, and COMEDK says so: the candidate needs to know how to operate the computer mouse. Beyond that the consortium recommends nothing. No textbook, no reading list, no coaching programme and no question bank is named anywhere in the brochure, the counselling document or the exam pages, so the three subject syllabus documents and the weighting the brochure attaches to them are the whole of the scope statement a candidate has to work against (test syllabi).

Where it is held

Exam centres

COMEDK runs the test across India, not only in Karnataka. The brochure states that COMEDK UGET 2026 would be conducted across 200+ cities and 400+ centres in India, and its FAQ answers the question directly: the entrance exam is open to all the eligible students across India (information brochure).

The published city list is organised state by state and is worth reading before choosing, because Bengaluru appears in it several times by locality, with separate entries near Yelahanka, Kengeri, Peenya, Anekal, Banashankari, Bannerghatta, Doddaballapur, Hesaraghatta, K R Puram and Kudlu Gate (exam centres 2026).

The allotment rules are strict in both directions. A candidate opts for 3 cities in order of preference in the application form, cities are allotted first come first served subject to availability, each city may hold one or more centres, and the allocation runs through a computer assisted randomisation and optimisation process (test city selection and availability). The preference is considered only after COMEDK receives successful online payment. The test city once opted cannot be changed subsequently under any circumstance, though COMEDK reserves the right to allot a different city, and will do so if a chosen city is cancelled or becomes unavailable. The allocated centre and session appear on the online TAT.

After the exam

Answer key

The answer key runs in two stages with a paid challenge window between them. The provisional key went live at 11 AM on 16 May 2026 and challenges closed at 2 PM on 18 May, with the final key published on 23 May (calendar of events).

The price of an objection is set per question, so the bill scales with how much of the key a candidate disputes. A clarification is submitted online through the challenge form in the applicant login with a fee of Rs 500 per clarification plus transaction charges, and COMEDK's own worked example puts five clarifications at Rs 2,500 plus charges. The money is refunded in full only if the clarification is upheld, and only after the whole UGET process is completed. COMEDK also requires the PDF of the provisional answer key to be attached, and states that screen shots from a mobile or computer will not be considered (result publishing, information brochure).

The window is narrow in scope as well as time. Clarifications are entertained against the provisional key alone, not against the final answer key, the test score or the rank that follows, and whatever is filed goes to COMEDK's Academic Committee, whose decision the brochure describes as final and binding on all (result publishing).

Scores

Result and scorecard

A COMEDK rank is built out of percentiles rather than marks, and the multi-session format is the reason. Because the exam is conducted in multiple sessions with different question papers, COMEDK adopts a normalisation procedure, describing it as in line with the practice adopted by NTA and the IITs, and then takes test scores in percentile for announcing rank. It defines percentile as the percentage of candidates who have got equal to or lower score than the candidate, normalised between all sessions (inter-se merit and normalisation, information brochure).

Ties are broken in a published order: higher percentile in Physics and Mathematics first, then in Mathematics, then in Chemistry, and if the papers still cannot separate two candidates, the elder candidate is ranked higher (inter-se merit and normalisation). A candidate with zero marks receives no rank at all.

The rank card is downloaded from the applicant login and no hard copy is sent by email, post, courier or in person (online rank card). Any attempt to tamper with the rank or score card renders the candidate ineligible for further COMEDK process. Candidates who also paid for Uni-GAUGE E receive a second, separate document from it: a score card carrying raw scores only, with no rank and no percentile.

Scores you need

Cutoff

There is no mark to clear here, so a candidate hunting for one is hunting in the wrong document. What COMEDK does put out arrives after each allotment round and describes what has already happened rather than what is required: the last rank that got a seat, college by college, branch by branch and category by category. The engineering cut-off ranks after Round 4 allotment for 2026 are laid out as a grid, with college codes down the side, branch codes across the top and the seat category printed against each college.

A fresh set appeared at every stage of the 2026 engineering cycle: after the mock round on 14.07.2026, after Round 1 on 27.07.2026, after Round 2 on 07.08.2026, after Round 3 on 18.08.2026 and after Round 4 on 01.09.2026 (COMEDK counselling notifications). COMEDK also puts out the previous year's post-all-rounds set before choice filling opens, which in this cycle meant the 2025 engineering table on 07.07.2026, four days ahead of the first choice filling window, and names "Referring to Cut off Ranks of earlier year" as one of the guiding factors for preparatory work before choice filling (counselling process document 2026). Those are the like-for-like references COMEDK itself points candidates to. A closing rank that moves round by round is not a pass mark, and a predicted one is not a COMEDK number at all.

Getting a seat

Counselling and seat allotment

The consortium that sets the paper also allots the seat, which is the inverse of how a state common entrance test hands off to a government authority. COMEDK holds the centralized online counselling itself, for the member institutions, on the authorisation issued by KUPECA and following the directions dated 27.08.2021 of the Admission Overseeing Committee (counselling process document 2026).

Entry is a separate paid step after the exam. A candidate registers for counselling in the applicant login with a non-refundable registration fee of Rs 2,000, uploads documents, and reaches choice filling only once the verification status reads "Document Approved" (counselling process document 2026). A mock allotment follows, based on real data, and preferences can be added, removed or reordered until the last date of Round 1 choice filling, after which the real allotment freezes them. COMEDK warns that the real result may still differ from the mock, because other candidates change their choices too.

Four rounds run, and they are not four attempts at the same pool. Round 2 allots Kalyana Karnataka Region seats only; Round 3 converts the remaining vacant KKR seats to General Merit and opens to the general pool; Round 4 handles General Merit seats vacant after Round 3. That reservation is a real quota with a published size: 70% of seats for local persons in institutions located in the Kalyana Karnataka area and 8% of seats for them in institutions outside it, the region being Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Bidar, Koppal, Raichur, Ballari and Vijayanagara (counselling rounds and KKR reservation). In 2026 the engineering sequence ran from 2.30 PM on 30 May, when counselling registration opened, to 3 PM on 08 Sept, when Round 4 reporting to the allotted college closed. Architecture ran four rounds of its own alongside it, on its own dates and from a separate login, and finished later: its Round 4 cut-off ranks were notified on 09.09.2026 (engineering and architecture counselling schedules).

Each allotment is answered with one of four decisions, and three of them cost money. Accept & Freeze, Accept & Upgrade and Reject & Upgrade all route the candidate to the payment gateway for the total fee (tuition plus other fees) of the college allotted, including the college being rejected; only Reject & Withdraw does not, and it ends the candidate's counselling. Taking no action at all on a first allotment is read as Reject & Withdraw (choices available to a candidate).

Round 4 is where the process stops being reversible. There is no seat cancellation option during or after it, the candidate has to join the allotted college, and a candidate who fails to join and continue the study forfeits the entire tuition fee including other fees paid at COMEDK level and is liable for a penalty of five times the fee (seat cancellation policy). Refunds before that point are defined: the total fee comes back to candidates who take Reject & Withdraw in Rounds 1 to 3, who cancel a seat within a cancellation period, who click EXIT during the Round 3 cancellation period, or who held Reject & Upgrade from Round 2 or Round 3 and were allotted nothing in Round 4. Convenience fees never come back, and a refund is processed within 15 days of the end of the entire counselling process, to the same account or card that paid (refund policy).

The money at stake is set by a published ceiling rather than by COMEDK, which says it has nothing to do with the determination of tuition fees. The upper limit of annual tuition fee agreed between the State Government and the association of colleges was Rs 3,02,000 per annum or Rs 2,15,000 per annum, whichever the institution opted for, and each institution may collect "Other Fees" not exceeding Rs 20,000 per annum through COMEDK (details of fee). On top of that, a college with special skill lab facilities may collect Rs 10,000, Rs 15,000 or a maximum of Rs 20,000 per student per annum as approved by VTU, plus applicable university fees at college level (details of fee, counselling process document).

Where it is accepted

Participating institutes

The consortium's member institutions page files its colleges under four headings, and only the engineering one is a UGET rank's to reach. Architecture sits beside it under E-series codes of its own, entered through NATA or JEE rather than through this paper; the medical list runs on M-series codes and the dental list on D-series, and those two are outside the consortium's testing altogether now. COMEDK notes that the information is as furnished by the institutions and that the list is subject to change.

The seat matrix is where the size of the offer becomes concrete. COMEDK's final seat availability and fee structure published before Round 1 of the 2026 engineering counselling totals 24,576 seats, split 20,837 General Merit and 3,739 Kalyana Karnataka Region, with tuition fee, other fee and total fee printed per college and per branch (engineering final seat availability and fee structure).

Three footnotes in that document are easy to miss and expensive to miss: Reva University collects a university fee of Rs 28,000 for the CIT, IS, EC and UE courses at university level, Chanakya University collects an optional Rs 20,000 payable at the university, and G.S.S.S. Institute of Engineering & Technology for Women is a women's college whose seats are reserved for female candidates, with male candidates asked not to select it during choice filling to avoid cancellation later (seat availability notes). The branch list itself is broad, running well past the traditional core into codes for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Computer Science & Business Systems, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science & Engineering (Block Chain) (branches offered for B.E.).

Get help

Contact

COMEDK's corporate office is at # 132, Second Floor, 11th Main, 17th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore-560 055, and the student helpdesk runs on 080-69796266 and studenthelpdesk@comedk.org, Monday to Friday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, not operational on Saturdays, Sundays and other public holidays (COMEDK helpdesk and office details).

Two rules govern how that helpdesk works. Correspondence has to come from the candidate's own registered email id, mails are answered within 3 working days, and disputes or grievances about seat selection and fees go to the same address, in English or Kannada only. COMEDK also states that it has no agents, liaison offices, admission offices or representatives other than the office named on its website, and that comedk.org is its only official website (counselling process document 2026).

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Disclaimer

Exact dates, fees, cutoffs/ranks and participating-college/seat counts change each cycle. UG medical/dental seats now go via NEET, so UGET functions as an engineering test. Anything per-cycle here is stated for the cycle it names and is taken from the conducting body's own notification; confirm it on the official website before acting on it. Expertie does not conduct any exam, process applications or charge fees.

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