Entrance exam
Kerala Law Entrance Examination(KLEE)
About the exam
About KLEE
KLEE, expanded as Kerala Law Entrance Examination, is the name the Kerala law entrance is searched under. Behind it sit three separate tests set by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations in Thiruvananthapuram: one for the Integrated Five Year LL.B, one for the Three Year LL.B and one for the LL.M, each with its own prospectus, application, rank list and seat allotment. A date, a fee rule or a rank taken from one of them does not carry over to the other two.
The Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) is a Government of Kerala office established in 1983, and its candidate portal names Three-Year LLB, Five-Year LLB and LLM among the courses it conducts entrance examinations and allotment for, next to KEAM and several postgraduate courses (Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, Kerala). The same page links three separate 2026 candidate portals, one per course.
None of the 2026 prospectuses, and none of the English notices on those three portals, uses the name KLEE or the longer form Kerala Law Entrance Examination. The office names each test by its course instead, in notice titles such as "Entrance Examination for Admission to LLM Course-2026" (LL.M 2026 application notice), so that course name is what to look for on the portals. The Government approved all three prospectuses in a single order, G.O.(Ms) No.419/2026/HEDN, which is printed at the front of each (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
What the three tests share is the conducting office, the application fee, the computer-based format and the +3/-1 marking. What they do not share is the qualifying course, the question paper, the rank list or the allotment, and only the two LL.B tests share a test date. Admission through any of them reaches the Government Law Colleges and the Government merit seats in private self-financing law colleges; the prospectus defines Government seats as the merit seats against which the Commissioner makes allotment (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
At a glance
KLEE highlights
| Full name | Kerala Law Entrance Examination |
| Conducting body | Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE), Government of Kerala |
| Level | UG and PG |
| Stream | Law |
| Mode of exam | Computer-based test (online, objective/MCQ) |
| Frequency | Once a year |
| Scope | State |
| Duration | 120 minutes |
| Marking scheme | +3 for each correct answer, -1 for each wrong answer. LLB: 120 questions / 360 marks. LLM: 200 questions / 600 marks. |
Calendar
Important dates
For 2026, both LL.B prospectuses opened online applications on 10 June 2026 and fixed the test for Sunday, 28 June 2026 (Three Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). The application notices of 9 June 2026 set the closing time at 5 PM on 15 June 2026 (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 application notice). A later notice extended the last date for the five-year course to 5 PM on 17 June 2026 (Integrated Five Year LL.B date extension notice), and a matching notice did the same for the three-year course (Three Year LL.B date extension notice).
Both LL.B tests ran on the same Sunday but in different sessions. The five-year paper was timed from 10 AM to 12 PM (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus), and the three-year paper from 3 PM to 5 PM (Three Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). The five-year final rank list followed on 29 July 2026 (Integrated Five Year LL.B final rank list notice).
The LL.M ran on its own calendar. Its prospectus opened applications on 1 July 2026, closed them on 10 July and scheduled the test for 26 July 2026 (LL.M 2026 prospectus). A notice then extended the LL.M last date to 5 PM on 15 July 2026 (LL.M date extension notice). The LL.M final rank list was published on 22 August 2026 (LL.M final rank list notice).
The month moves from cycle to cycle. The 2024-25 five-year prospectus scheduled that course's test for 18 August 2024 (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2024 prospectus), and the 2025-26 five-year prospectus scheduled it for 25 May 2025 (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2025 prospectus).
Typical cycle
Notification and online application typically in spring, exam around mid-year, followed by results, rank list and centralised counselling/allotment.
Who can apply
Eligibility criteria
Each course has its own academic bar, and the Keralite rule runs across all three.
Integrated Five Year LL.B
The 2026 prospectus accepts a pass in the Higher Secondary examination of the Kerala board, or a +2 or equivalent such as 11+1 or an A level from a recognised board in India or abroad (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). It treats a 3-year Diploma or Polytechnic course taken after Class 10 as equal to +2, and it accepts a +2 earned through distance or correspondence study. It shuts out anyone who reached +2 through an open university directly, without the basic qualification for that study.
The minimum is 45% in the qualifying examination, 42% for SEBC and differently abled candidates and 40% for SC/ST candidates, with no rounding up (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). OEC candidates get the same relaxation as SEBC candidates. Candidates still sitting the qualifying examination can apply, but they must produce the pass certificate and mark list at admission. The applicant must have completed 17 years of age as on 31 December 2026, and any upper age limit is left to the Supreme Court of India; if the age rule in clause 28 of the Bar Council of India's Legal Education Rules, 2008 is reinstated, only candidates within it may sit the test.
Three Year LL.B
The 2026 prospectus requires a bachelor's degree in any discipline from a university set up by an Act of Parliament or a State legislature, a deemed university, or a foreign university recognised as equivalent (Three Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). The degree needs 45% in aggregate across all its parts, 42% for SEBC and differently abled candidates and 40% for SC/ST candidates, again without rounding. A first degree earned through distance or correspondence study counts, but a degree reached through an open university directly, without the basic qualification for it, does not. Final-year students of the 2025-26 regular examination can apply and must bring the provisional or degree certificate and every mark list to admission. There is no lower age limit, and the upper limit follows the same Supreme Court and Bar Council caveat as the five-year course.
A candidate whose degree is from outside Kerala must produce an eligibility certificate from the Kerala university concerned, obtained before registering options, and a candidate choosing colleges under different universities must make sure each of them recognises the degree (Three Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
LL.M
The LL.M prospectus asks for an LL.B passed with at least 50% marks from a Kerala university, or from another university that the Kerala university concerned recognises as equivalent (LL.M 2026 prospectus). Final-year LL.B candidates in the regular examination can apply, and there is no upper age limit. The same prospectus extends to OEC candidates a relaxation in marks "as in the case of SEBC candidates" without printing any SEBC relaxation for the LL.M.
Indian Citizens, OCI Cardholders and the Keralite Rule
All three prospectuses open admission to Indian citizens, and treat Overseas Citizen of India cardholders, including PIO cardholders, at par only for the limited purpose of admission, with no reservation of any kind (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Only candidates of Kerala origin, called Keralites, can claim any reservation or any fee concession.
Citizenship is proved with any one of a birth certificate or SSLC page showing a birthplace in India, a Government of India passport, a Village Officer's certificate of birthplace, or a nationality certificate. Kerala origin is proved with any one of the candidate's SSLC page showing birth in Kerala, a parent's SSLC page with proof of relationship, the candidate's or a parent's passport, a birth certificate for the candidate or a parent, a Village Officer or Tahsildar certificate in the Annexure X format, or a nativity certificate for the candidate or a parent.
- 5-year integrated LLB requires a pass in 10+2 with the prescribed minimum aggregate; 3-year LLB requires a recognised bachelor's degree; LLM entrance requires an LLB. Specific percentage cut-offs and age norms set per cycle.
Step by step
Application process and fee
Applications for all three courses are online only, and the prospectus sets out five compulsory steps: registration, filling the form, paying the fee, uploading images and certificates, and printing the acknowledgement page (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Registration produces the application number, and that number and the password are needed until the end of the admission process. Nothing can be changed after final submission, a candidate may submit only one application for a course, and the application fee is not refunded under any circumstances.
For 2026 the application fee was Rs 950 for General and SEBC candidates and Rs 450 for SC/ST candidates and persons with disabilities, paid online by net banking, debit card or credit card (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 application notice). The LL.M notice charged the same two amounts (LL.M 2026 application notice). It was lower in earlier cycles: the 2025-26 prospectus charged Rs 900 for General and SEBC candidates (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2025 prospectus), and the 2024-25 prospectus Rs 850 (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2024 prospectus).
The upload rules are exact. The photograph must be a studio-made JPEG of 15 kb to 100 kb at 150 x 200 pixels, the signature a JPEG of 4 kb to 100 kb at 150 by 100 pixels, and every certificate a PDF of 10 kb to 500 kb, with several documents for one claim merged into a single file (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Every reservation or concession claim has to be made in the form with its certificate attached, because a claim added after submission is refused even with proof.
Two quotas need a second step outside the portal. Sports quota applicants send the acknowledgement page and documents to the Kerala State Sports Council, and NCC applicants send theirs through their NCC unit to the NCC Directorate for Kerala and Lakshadweep before the last date (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Candidates who want a fee concession on income, other than SC/ST/OEC candidates, must upload an income certificate with the application.
Defects are flagged only on the candidate portal and by SMS, never by post. In 2026 the office gave LL.B applicants until 2 PM on 22 June 2026 to fix a defective photograph or signature, warning that the admit card of anyone who did not would be withheld (Integrated Five Year LL.B photo and signature notice). A second window, for other defects in the application, was set to close at 12 noon on 13 July 2026 (Integrated Five Year LL.B defect correction notice). A Malayalam press release of 14 July 2026 then extended it for both LL.B courses to 5 PM on 19 July 2026 (LL.B defect correction extension press release).
Before the exam
Admit card and exam day
Admit cards are downloaded from the course's candidate portal with the application number and password, and are not posted. For 2026 the LL.B admit cards were issued on 24 June 2026 for the test on 28 June (Integrated Five Year LL.B admit card notice), and the LL.M admit cards on 21 July 2026 for the test on 26 July (LL.M admit card notice).
The prospectus asks candidates to report two hours before the test, and turns away anyone who reports late for any reason (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Only the admit card, an original photo ID and a transparent ballpoint pen are allowed in. The accepted IDs are a PAN card, driving licence, voter ID, Class 12 admit or registration card, passport, Aadhaar or e-Aadhaar, a ration card with photograph, or an Aadhaar enrolment number with photograph.
Inside the hall, each candidate's face is captured before a seat is assigned, the seat number shown on the login screen has to be checked against the allotted seat, and a candidate who moves to another seat has the candidature cancelled (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). The roll number is typed with an on-screen keyboard and mouse, since the physical keyboard is not allowed. A mock familiarisation session starts 15 minutes before the test, rough-work sheets are handed out and collected back, and a system that fails is replaced with the lost time added back. When the timer ends, the screen moves to a statistics page and there is nothing to submit, but no one may leave before the end.
Malpractice cancels the candidature and bars the candidate from CEE entrance examinations for at least two years; impersonation bars the candidate from that course's entrance examination permanently (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). The prospectus also rules out a re-examination for anyone who misses the scheduled date and time.
Structure
Exam pattern
Both LL.B papers are two-hour computer-based tests of 120 objective questions in four sections (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
| LL.B section | Questions |
|---|---|
| General English | 36 |
| General Knowledge | 27 |
| Arithmetic and Mental Ability | 15 |
| Aptitude for Legal Studies | 42 |
| Total | 120 |
The same four sections and question counts appear in the three-year course's own prospectus (Three Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). They are still two different papers: the 2026 five-year paper carried question paper code 17/2026/OL (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 final answer key), and the three-year paper carried 18/2026/OL (Three Year LL.B 2026 final answer key).
A figure of 200 questions belongs to earlier cycles. The 2023-24 five-year prospectus set a 200-question paper split General English 60, General Knowledge 45, Arithmetic and Mental Ability 25 and Aptitude for Legal Studies 70 (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2023 prospectus). The 2024-25 prospectus moved to the 120-question split above (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2024 prospectus).
The LL.M paper has two parts within 120 minutes, and its questions are set at the standard of the LL.B examination (LL.M 2026 prospectus).
| LL.M part | Subject | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Part A | Jurisprudence | 25 |
| Part A | Constitutional Law | 25 |
| Part A | Law of Crimes | 25 |
| Part A | Law of Contracts | 25 |
| Part B | Public International Law | 20 |
| Part B | Administrative Law | 20 |
| Part B | Law of Property | 20 |
| Part B | Company Law | 20 |
| Part B | Interpretation of Statutes | 10 |
| Part B | Law of Torts | 10 |
In every paper a correct answer earns three marks, a wrong answer loses one and an unanswered question costs nothing. An LL.B tie is broken on Aptitude for Legal Studies marks, then English, then Arithmetic and Mental Ability, then age with the elder ranked higher (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). An LL.M tie goes to the candidate with more Part A marks, then to the elder (LL.M 2026 prospectus).
| Sections | Separate papers per programme. 3-year and 5-year LLB: General English, General Knowledge, Arithmetic and Mental Ability, and Aptitude for Legal Studies (120 questions). LLM: objective questions across core law subjects (200 questions). |
| Duration | 120 minutes |
| Marking scheme | +3 for each correct answer, -1 for each wrong answer. LLB: 120 questions / 360 marks. LLM: 200 questions / 600 marks. |
What to study
Syllabus
The 2026 LL.B prospectuses give no topic-level syllabus: they name the four sections and the number of questions in each, and nothing more. The published 2026 five-year key shows what the English section actually opened with, which was spotting misspelt words, choosing prepositions and finding antonyms (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 final answer key).
For the LL.M, the subject list in the pattern table is the syllabus the prospectus gives, together with its statement that questions are of the LL.B examination standard. The 2026 LL.M key opens with a question matching constitutional cases such as Indira Gandhi v. Raj Narain and Minerva Mills v. Union of India to the amendments they challenged (LL.M 2026 final answer key).
- LLB: General English, General Knowledge / current affairs, arithmetic and mental ability, and aptitude for legal studies. LLM: core law subjects including jurisprudence, constitutional law, criminal law, contract, torts, property, company law.
How to prepare
Preparation and books
None of the three 2026 prospectuses recommends a book or reading list. What the office does leave behind is its final answer keys, which reproduce each question with its options and the correct option, and mark the questions cancelled after challenges (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 final answer key). Earlier papers stay on older portals: the provisional key for the five-year test held on 18 August 2024 is published in the same format on the 2024 portal (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2024 provisional answer key).
The only practice the prospectus describes is the 15-minute familiarisation session on the computer in the examination hall, just before the real test begins (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
Where it is held
Exam centres
The 2026 LL.B application notices said the tests would be conducted at centres across all districts in Kerala (Three Year LL.B 2026 application notice). The LL.M notice named Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and Kozhikode as its centres (LL.M 2026 application notice), although the later LL.M admit card notice said only "various centres in Kerala". The venue is printed on the admit card, and requests to change the centre are not entertained (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
After the exam
Answer key
A challenge to a CEE key is paid for question by question, and in 2026 the two LL.B papers were not priced alike. Both keys were published on the day of the test, 28 June 2026, and both challenge windows on the candidate portal's Answer Key Challenge menu shut at 2 PM on 2 July 2026. The five-year notice charged Rs 200 per question (Integrated Five Year LL.B answer key notice), while the three-year notice charged Rs 100 (Three Year LL.B answer key notice). Both notices promised a refund, to the bank account given in the application, when a challenge is found genuine, and both refused challenges sent by post, e-mail or hand. For the LL.M, the prospectus fixes Rs 200 per question, payable within three days of the key being published (LL.M 2026 prospectus).
An expert committee decides every challenge, and its decision is final. On 13 July 2026 it deleted questions 7 and 59 from the five-year key and changed the answers to questions 31 and 73 (Integrated Five Year LL.B final answer key notice). For the three-year key it deleted questions 27, 28 and 76 and changed question 112 (Three Year LL.B final answer key notice). The LL.M final key of 10 August 2026 deleted questions 2 and 131 and changed the answers to questions 33, 57, 115 and 142 (LL.M final answer key notice).
Deleted questions do not simply vanish from the score. The prospectus distributes the marks of deleted questions as laid down by the Kerala High Court in 2002(3) KLT 871 (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). In practice each affected section's raw score is multiplied by its total questions and divided by the questions left valid (LL.B score calculation methodology). In 2026 that meant 36/35 for General English and 27/26 for General Knowledge on the five-year paper (Integrated Five Year LL.B valuation note), 36/34 for General English and 15/14 for Arithmetic and Mental Ability on the three-year paper (Three Year LL.B valuation note), and 100/99 in each LL.M part (LL.M provisional rank list notice). Each candidate's recorded responses are also published on the portal, under a Candidates Response tab.
Scores
Result and scorecard
What each 2026 test produced was a rank list in two stages, provisional and then final, published as a PDF that sets every candidate's score and rank against the application and roll numbers; the portal menus carry no separate scorecard download. LL.B candidates also see their own rank under the Result menu after logging in. To appear on the five-year list, a General or SEBC candidate needed 10% of the 360 marks, which is 36 marks, and an SC/ST candidate 5%, which is 18 marks (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 rank list), and the three-year list prints the same two bars (Three Year LL.B 2026 rank list). The LL.M prospectus prints no such qualifying mark.
A result can be held back until the candidate fixes a defect through the portal: the LL.M provisional rank list notice withheld some results for defects in uploaded documents and pending fee payment (LL.M provisional rank list notice). The five-year final rank list of 29 July 2026 also included SC and ST claimants only conditionally, pending the final report of the Kerala Institute for Research, Training and Development Studies of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (KIRTADS), and set 5 PM on 31 July 2026 as the last date to fix defects (Integrated Five Year LL.B final rank list notice).
Separate category lists follow the rank list for communal reservation, special reservation, persons with disabilities and EWS, with their own complaint window. A reservation claim rejected at that stage for missing proof, or for an unresolved defect in nativity, is not reinstated later (Three Year LL.B provisional category list notice).
Scores you need
Cutoff
In CEE's law allotments a seat closes at a rank, not at a mark. Clause 18.18 of the prospectus promises last rank details after each allotment and defines the figure as the candidate's rank in the rank list, not the position in a category list (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus), and the portals carry them as a Last Rank table for every college and category. The only marks bar the 2026 LL.B papers set is the qualifying mark for entering the rank list. The tables below give the State Merit column for the four Government Law Colleges after the 2026 second phase. They show where that phase closed, not where a later round will.
| Three Year LL.B, 2026 second phase | State Merit last rank |
|---|---|
| Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram | 103 |
| Government Law College, Ernakulam | 188 |
| Government Law College, Kozhikkode | 314 |
| Government Law College, Thrissur | 320 |
| Integrated Five Year LL.B, 2026 second phase | Programme | State Merit last rank |
|---|---|---|
| Government Law College, Ernakulam | B.Com LL.B (Hons) | 137 |
| Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram | BA LL.B | 269 |
| Government Law College, Kozhikkode | BBA LL.B (Hons) | 346 |
| Government Law College, Thrissur | BBA LL.B (Hons) | 370 |
The same tables carry separate columns for each SEBC group, SC, ST and EWS, a column of other categories, and rows for every private college's Government seats. The reserved columns close at their own ranks: at Government Law College, Ernakulam the three-year Ezhava column closed at 376 in the second phase, against 188 for State Merit (Three Year LL.B 2026 second phase last rank table).
Getting a seat
Counselling and seat allotment
Seats are filled through the Centralised Allotment Process (CAP), a single window run online by the Commissioner for each course separately. Only candidates on that course's rank list or category list who meet the eligibility clause can register options, and allotment follows the options, the rank and the reservation claims together (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
How the Rounds Work
Options are course-and-college combinations listed in order of preference, and every option registered is processed. A candidate allotted a seat must pay the fee and join, or lose both the seat and every remaining option (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). After each allotment, the options below the allotted one are deleted. To stay in a later phase, a candidate must press Confirm on the remaining higher options, and may then delete or reorder them. In the second phase, fresh options are allowed only for courses or colleges newly added to it.
Vacancies left after the second phase go to a vacant seat allotment with fresh options, then to one or more stray vacancy rounds, and finally to college-level stray vacancy filling. A seat taken in a vacant seat or stray vacancy round cannot be changed, and it ends eligibility for any later allotment (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
The option registration fee in 2026 was Rs 1,000, or Rs 500 for eligible SC/ST/OEC candidates and inmates of Juvenile, Nirbhaya and Sree Chithra homes (Three Year LL.B options notice). The notice refunds it to candidates who get no allotment and to eligible admitted candidates once allotment is over, and keeps it as a penalty from anyone who is allotted but does not join, or who quits after admission.
The 2026 LL.B Allotment
For the three-year course, options were registered from 7 August to 11.59 PM on 12 August 2026 (Three Year LL.B options notice). The five-year notice set its window from 10 August to 2 PM on 14 August 2026 (Integrated Five Year LL.B options notice), but the five-year first phase notice describes the options it used as registered up to 10 AM on 15 August 2026 (Integrated Five Year LL.B first phase allotment notice). First phase allottees of both courses were told to report to their colleges between 18 and 21 August 2026 (Three Year LL.B first phase allotment notice).
The second phase needed online option confirmation from 22 August 2026, until 11.59 PM on 31 August for the five-year course (Integrated Five Year LL.B second phase notice) and until 11.59 PM on 30 August for the three-year course (Three Year LL.B second phase notice). Its final allotment was published on 3 September 2026, with joining from 7 to 10 September 2026 (Three Year LL.B second phase allotment notice). SC and ST allotments stayed provisional while KIRTADS verified caste status.
For the three-year course, CEE's vacant seat allotment notice of 14 September 2026 set option registration from 14 September to 10 AM on 18 September 2026, and said the allotment and joining schedule would be notified later (Three Year LL.B vacant seat allotment notice). The same notice fixed 5 PM on 17 September 2026 as the last time for candidates admitted in earlier phases to leave the course without penalty, warned that a vacant seat allotment cancels any existing admission, and told candidates who had already paid the option fee, whether they joined or were not allotted, that they need not pay it again. A three-year vacancy list dated 14 September 2026 was posted on the course portal alongside it (Three Year LL.B vacancy list). For the five-year course, the second phase notice of 3 September 2026 said the vacant seat allotment date would be published later (Integrated Five Year LL.B second phase allotment notice).
The LL.M allotment follows its own later calendar. CEE's LL.M notice of 5 September 2026 records that the final category list was published on 3 September 2026, and that the lists for the Dheevara, Viswakarma and Kusavan groups, first issued in provisional form that day, were finalised after complaints closed at 10 AM on 5 September 2026 (LL.M final category list notice).
Fees Payable on Admission
Because the 2026-27 fee was, in the notice's words, "not yet fixed by AFRC", allottees pay the 2025-26 fee and are liable for any increase (Integrated Five Year LL.B options notice). That fee was an annual tuition fee of Rs 1,575 in a Government Law College. On a Government seat in a private self-financing college it was an annual tuition fee of Rs 36,750, a special fee of Rs 5,250 and a refundable deposit of Rs 50,000. Colleges can add a caution deposit, special fee, moot court fee and PTA fund.
SC, ST and OEC candidates eligible for educational concessions are exempt from fees, as are children of registered fishermen and inmates of Sri Chitra Home, Nirbhaya Home and juvenile homes allotted merit seats (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Candidates from the communities in Annexure IV(b) with an annual family income up to Rs 6 lakh are exempt, and students of any community with a family income not above Rs 1,00,000 can apply for a fee concession.
How Seats Are Reserved
In the Government Law Colleges, 5% of seats go to persons with at least 40% disability (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Each of the four colleges also holds one LL.B seat apiece for ex-servicemen or their children, blind candidates, the sports quota, and ex-paramilitary personnel or their children. Government Law College, Ernakulam keeps one for a Keralite settled in Lakshadweep and sponsored by its administration. Blind and Lakshadweep candidates skip the entrance test but need 45% in the qualifying examination, and blind candidates apply to the college principal directly.
The NCC quota differs by course. For the five-year LL.B it is one seat at Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram and 5 seats rotating across private colleges (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). For the three-year LL.B it is two Government Law College seats, one at Thiruvananthapuram and, in 2026, one at Kozhikode (Three Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Sports and NCC candidates are ranked on an index of up to 1000, adding proficiency marks out of 500 to their entrance marks scaled to 500.
The remaining seats, including Government seats in private colleges, are split under mandatory reservation (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus):
| Category | Share of seats |
|---|---|
| State Merit | 60% |
| Ezhava | 9% |
| Muslim | 8% |
| Other Backward Hindu | 3% |
| Latin Catholic and Anglo Indian | 3% |
| Dheevara and related communities | 2% |
| Viswakarma and related communities | 2% |
| Kusavan and related communities | 1% |
| Other Backward Christian | 1% |
| Kudumbi | 1% |
| Scheduled Castes | 8% |
| Scheduled Tribes | 2% |
On top of the sanctioned strength, a further 10% of seats are supernumerary EWS seats under a Bar Council of India order, and unclaimed EWS seats go to no other category (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus). Every law college also gets two supernumerary seats for transgender candidates, subject to Bar Council approval. Unfilled SC seats pass to ST and back, unfilled SC/ST seats pass to OEC candidates, and unfilled OEC and SEBC seats pass to State Merit. The LL.M prospectus repeats the State Merit and SEBC shares, gives SC and ST 10% together without a split between them, reserves 5% for disability, and has one special seat only, an extra place for a blind candidate at Government Law College, Ernakulam (LL.M 2026 prospectus).
Where it is accepted
Participating institutes
For 2026 the three-year allotment covered 4 Government Law Colleges and, in the notice's words, "50% Government seats in 20 Private Self-financing Law Colleges" (Three Year LL.B options notice). Its Government Law College seats were 60 at Thiruvananthapuram and 120 each at Ernakulam, Thrissur and Kozhikode. The five-year allotment covered the same 4 Government Law Colleges and Government seats in 32 private self-financing colleges (Integrated Five Year LL.B options notice).
Each Government Law College offers a different five-year programme.
| Government Law College | Five-year programme | Seats, 2026 CAP |
|---|---|---|
| Thiruvananthapuram | BA LL.B | 120 |
| Ernakulam | B.Com LL.B (Hons) | 60 |
| Thrissur | BBA LL.B (Hons) | 60 |
| Kozhikode | BBA LL.B (Hons) | 120 |
The private colleges in the five-year list offer BA LL.B, B.Com LL.B and BBA LL.B, some in Hons versions, and The Kerala Law Academy Law College at Peroorkada also lists a BSc IT LL.B. Every allotment on that list is subject to the final order, affiliation or approval of the Government, the Bar Council of India and the university concerned. The seat list printed in the prospectus states that its figures exclude the 10% EWS supernumerary seats (Integrated Five Year LL.B 2026 prospectus).
For the LL.M, the prospectus lists the colleges allotted in 2025-26 with their specialisations: Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram in Constitutional Law, International Law, and Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology; Ernakulam in Commercial Law and Criminal Law; Thrissur in Administrative Law and Criminal Law; and Kozhikode in Law of Taxation and Criminal Law (LL.M 2026 prospectus). The same 2025-26 list gives those four colleges 15, 15, 10 and 15 seats respectively, every one of them allotted by CEE, with Ernakulam's blind seat filled by its principal on top. Private colleges on that list add specialisations such as Maritime Law.
- Government and private law colleges in Kerala for 3-year LLB, 5-year integrated LLB, and LLM, through CEE Kerala centralised allotment.
Get help
Contact
The contact pages give the office's address as 7th Floor, KSRTC Bus Terminal Complex, Thampanoor, Thiruvananthapuram 695 001, though the notices refuse documents, options and complaints sent there by post. Its helplines are 0471-2332120 and 0471-2338487 from 10 AM to 5 PM, and the 24-hour Citizen Call Centre can be reached on 0471-155300 from BSNL only, or on 0471-2115054, 2115098 and 2335523 from any network (Three Year LL.B 2026 contact page).
The e-mail address differs between the office's own pages. The two LL.B contact pages print ceekinfo@cee.kerala.gov.in, while every 2026 notice and the LL.M contact page print ceekinfo.cee@kerala.gov.in (LL.M 2026 contact page). The 2026 notices directed complaints to the second address, each with its own required subject line.
Source
Official links
Questions
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Disclaimer
Disclaimer
Exact dates, admit-card and result dates, answer keys, cut-offs, rank lists, fees, thresholds and counselling change every cycle. total_marks/question_count null because they differ between LLB (360/120) and LLM (600/200). 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.
References
Sources
- Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, Kerala - cee.kerala.gov.in
