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News18
29-07-2025
- General
- News18
KEAM Counselling 2025: Round 2 Seat Allotment List Releasing Today, How To Check
Last Updated: KEAM Counselling 2025: Candidates selected in the round 2 list will have to complete their enrolment at the designated institutions between July 31 and August 4. The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE), will be releasing the second round of provisional allotment list for the Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) 2025 today, July 29. The allotment list will be issued for architectural, engineering and pharmacy courses on the official website at According to the schedule released by the CEE, the final seat allotment list will be issued tomorrow, July 30. Candidates selected in the list will have to complete their enrolment at the designated institutions and for their chosen courses between July 31 and August 4. Step 1. Go to the KEAM official website, Step 2. Candidates should go to the 'KEAM 2025 Candidate site' Step 3. You will be redirected to a new page. Enter your application number, password and access code. Step 4. Now choose the 'Provisional Allotment List' menu on the admission site to examine the KEAM 2025 provisional allotment list. Candidates receiving a new seat allotment through the KEAM process must pay the required fees to the CEE. Payment can be made online or in person at any Kerala Head Post Office. After paying the fee, candidates must promptly enroll in their assigned college or course. A fee receipt will be issued upon payment. It is important to note that failure to pay the fee within the specified timeframe will result in the forfeiture of the allotted seat. To secure their seats in the designated colleges, the CEE urges all candidates to adhere to the timelines set by the institutes and complete all enrollment processes within the specified period. Candidates are required to carry the following documents while reporting to the assigned college for the KEAM 2025 counselling process: — KEAM 2025 admit card. — KEAM 2025 result. — Allotment memo issued by CEE. — Fee receipt issued by the bank. — Eligibility Certificate (by applicants who have passed a qualifying exam other than one conducted by CEE). view comments First Published: July 29, 2025, 13:11 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Hindustan Times
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
HC quashes last-minute change to '25 KEAM exam
The Kerala high court on Wednesday quashed a last-minute change to Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) 2025 examination prospectus on the weightage of marks in different subjects, calling it 'illegal, arbitrary, and unjustified'. HC quashes last-minute change to '25 KEAM exam The single bench of Justice DK Singh delivered the ruling on a batch of writ petitions filed by students who passed the 10 + 2 examinations under CBSE and had appeared for the KEAM 2025. The petitioners argued that the change, issued on July 1, just an hour before the rank list was published, altered the method for calculating final scores of candidates and it was done to favour those who studied under the state syllabus. The change in the prospectus stated that while the KEAM marks and 10 + 2 board exam marks would be maintained in a 50:50 ratio, in respect of the marks in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, the marks obtained would be in the ratio of 5:3:2 instead of the earlier 1:1:1. The results of the KEAM exam, for which over 86,000 students appeared this year for admission to engineering, architecture and medical courses in the state, were announced on July 1, exactly one hour after the prospectus was changed. The exams were conducted between April 23 and 29 this year. PG Pramod, senior government pleader, argued that the clause 1.6 of the prospectus gives the government powers to make changes to the prospectus at any point of time. The HC noted that while the government may possess the power, how it chooses to exercise the power is another matter. 'On 14.05.2025, the score cards of the students relating to the entrance examinations were declared on the website, and the students were directed to submit their marks obtained in class 10 + 2 examinations. When the authorities have full data before them and found that the students from the Kerala stream have not done very well in the examination, they decided to change the formulae in the most arbitrary, illegal and unjustified manner,' the bench said. 'The change in the prospectus is set aside. The Commissioner for the Entrance Examinations is directed to publish the rank list in accordance with the prospectus which was issued on 19.02.2025,' the judge said. Reacting to the HC ruling, Kerala higher education minister R Bindu indicated that the state government may appeal against the single-judge order. 'The state's only aim is to ensure fairness and justice for all students. The government does not have any other ulterior motives. All decisions were made in a transparent manner,' she said. .
The Hindu
09-07-2025
- General
- The Hindu
How KEAM exam row throws the spotlight on skewed marks normalisation processes
Another year, another entrance exam controversy. This time, the Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) examination is under fire. The admissions process is stalled, and thousands of students, after months of grueling preparation, have been thrown into a state of acute anxiety. The reason? A sudden, last-minute change to the ranking rules, made after the exam was already over. For students who had meticulously calculated their potential ranks and admission chances based on the established system, this move shattered all predictability, throwing their future plans into chaos. This isn't an isolated incident; it's a symptom of a deep-seated rot in the admissions systems in our country, built on a foundation of opaque and statistically questionable formulas. The KEAM fiasco began on July 1, 2025, when the Kerala government issued an order fundamentally amending the prospectus. This order completely altered how Class 12 board marks, which account for 50% of the final rank, are calculated. Changing the rules after the game is over is a cardinal sin, and it left students feeling betrayed and helpless. The necessary evil of score adjustment To be fair, in a country as diverse as India, some form of score adjustment is unavoidable. When an exam like JEE Main or CUET is conducted in multiple shifts, the difficulty level varies. Similarly, when board exam marks from over 30 different boards are given weightage, how does one fairly compare a 90% from CBSE with a 90% from a state board? This is where statistical methods like standardization and normalization come in. Standardization, often using a Z-score, recalibrates marks from different groups onto a common scale by considering the mean and standard deviation of each group's full performance. Normalization methods aim to find a score-percentile equivalence across different sessions. While necessary, the application of these methods in India has been a tale of persistent problems. The ghosts of JEE and CUET The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for engineering has been a battleground for normalization issues for years. After a failed attempt to incorporate board exam marks (an experiment abandoned due to the non-uniformity of boards), the National Testing Agency (NTA) settled on a percentile-based system. The underlying assumption here is that the distribution of student ability is identical across all shifts. This is a statistical fantasy. As a result, we see massive variations in raw scores required to achieve the same percentile. A student scoring 180 in a difficult shift might end up with a lower percentile than a student scoring 160 in an easier one. This creates a perception of a 'lottery' based on which shift a student is assigned, fueling anxiety and endless court cases. The Common University Entrance Test (CUET), introduced to streamline university admissions, has its own set of normalization woes. It uses a complex 'equipercentile method' involving interpolation. Students and experts have raised concerns about the 'bunching' of scores at the 100th percentile, where thousands of students get the same perfect normalized score, making it impossible for universities to differentiate between them. This has paralyzed admissions at premier institutions like the University of Delhi. Unable to differentiate between top candidates, colleges are forced to revert to arbitrary tie-breakers like board marks or even age, defeating the very purpose of a common test designed to ensure merit-based, equitable admissions. The process remains largely a black box for the average student, breeding mistrust. The trouble with KEAM's new Math The KEAM situation is a case study in flawed statistical application, featuring two contentious layers of adjustment. Firstly, the normalization applied across different shifts of the KEAM entrance exam is itself problematic. With an audience roughly 1/20th the size of JEE's, applying a normalization method that assumes a vast, evenly distributed pool of candidates is statistically unsound. This isn't just a theory; students from the April 29th shift have already complained of being put at a significant disadvantage. Secondly, and more egregiously, is the government's post-exam overhaul of how board marks are calculated. For years, Kerala used a standardization formula based on a Z-score. However, this method recently began to disadvantage Kerala State board students due to massive grade inflation. With liberal valuation leading to a glut of students scoring very high marks, the State board's score distribution became highly skewed. So the actual problem was not with the mathematical formula - but with the system itself, but instead of correcting the system the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations chose to abandon standardization altogether. This year, Kerala has abandoned standardization in its true sense. The previous system, a form of Z-score standardization, considered the performance distribution of all students from a particular board. The new method, however, is being called normalization, but it is a deeply flawed way to compare students. Instead of looking at the overall distribution, the new system simply pegs the highest score in a subject from any board to the highest score achieved in the Kerala State Board. In simple terms, if the top score in Physics from one board is 95, and the top score in the Kerala board is 100, the system treats 95 as the new 100 for every student from that board. All other scores are then scaled up based on this single data point. This makes the entire rank list beholden to the performance of a handful of toppers, who could be statistical outliers. It is not a genuine comparison of student performance across boards. Apparently, this year the toppers from the CBSE as well as the State board have scored 100% in PCM subjects making the normalization procedure null and void for the year. To add insult to injury, the amendment also changed the subject weightage for calculating the board exam component to a 5:3:2 ratio for Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, respectively. This is unfair, as students appeared for their board exams without any knowledge that their performance in Mathematics would suddenly carry almost as much weight as Physics and Chemistry combined. The path forward: From opacity to trust The judiciary will have its say on the KEAM matter. But we cannot keep running to the courts for every exam. This cycle of flawed systems, student protests, and last-minute fixes needs to end. We need a fundamental rethink. Embrace transparency: Methodologies and their rationale must be made public in an understandable format, well before the examination process begins. Abandon the Board mark charade: The JEE experiment has proved that incorporating Board marks is problematic. Until we can achieve uniformity in evaluation across the nation's school Boards, giving them weightage in rankings is an exercise in futility. Democratize test preparation: The government should invest in creating high-quality, free, and accessible preparatory resources to level the playing field for students from all economic backgrounds. Constitute permanent, independent expert bodies: The formulation of admission policies should not be a reactive, panic-driven exercise. We need permanent, independent committees of statisticians, psychometricians, and academicians to devise and continually review these procedures. The root cause Our current approach to admissions is not just a technical failure; it is a moral one. Finally, we must remember that these examination bodies are not just administrative agencies; they are multi-crore entities that earn significant revenue from the application fees paid by lakhs of students. This financial relationship creates a profound moral responsibility. It is imperative that our system evolves to become truly student-centric and friendly, treating applicants not as data points in a flawed formula, but as the primary stakeholders they are, investing both their money and their futures in a system that must be worthy of their trust. Our current approach to admission is turning a period of hope and ambition into one of anxiety and injustice for millions of our brightest young minds. They deserve better. They deserve a system that is fair, transparent, and, above all, predictable. (The author is an IIT Madras graduate, an engineer-turned-educator. He engages with students through 'unlearn with ajmal' youtube channel)
The Hindu
09-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Kerala High Court quashes KEAM 2025 entrance exam results
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday (July 9, 2025) quashed the results of the Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) 2025 entrance examinations. The results were announced earlier this month. Passing the order, Justice D.K. Singh stated that the revised method in KEAM 2025 to calculate the ranks adversely affected students who studied CBSE or ICSE syllabus in their higher secondary classes. The order came on a petition filed by Hana Fatima Ahnus, a student who had appeared for the KEAM exam, stating that the weightage criteria was made after the release of the exam's prospectus. The court termed this 'an illegal move.' The petitioner who appeared for the entrance exam to secure admission in engineering had alleged that the ranking procedure was amended on the date of publication of the rank list. This adversely affected her and that her rank was pushed to 4,209. A candidate who obtained similar marks in 2024 had been ranked 1,907, she said in her petition, and alleged that the amendment was 'arbitrary, illegal and malafide.' She further contended that this was made with 'the oblique motive to do away with' the weightage given to CBSE and ICSE students. The sudden change of the KEAM-2025 standardisation formula had left many students feeling frustrated and disillusioned as it impacted their expected ranks, following which many of them lodged complaints with the Kerala government, claiming that the normalisation method used this year was unfair and illogical. It had been reported that last year, State higher secondary students had suffered due to the flawed standardisation process by the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations (CEE), which conducted KEAM. This year, however, CBSE and ICSE students were facing the brunt of it. The Unaided Schools Protection Council (USPC), an umbrella body of private schools, too had moved the High Court against the new standardisation method.
New Indian Express
02-07-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
KEAM 2025 results out: Ernakulam tops engineering, Alappuzha leads in pharmacy
KOZHIKODE: The highly anticipated results of the Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) 2025 entrance examinations were officially declared on Tuesday by the Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE). The announcement was made by Higher Education Minister R Bindu in Kozhikode. Ernakulam district emerged as a powerhouse in the engineering stream, sweeping the top two ranks, while Alappuzha celebrated its first-place achiever in the pharmacy examination. The computer-based entrance examination for KEAM 2025 was conducted from April 23 to April 29, 2025, across 138 examination centres, including those in major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru, as well as Dubai. A total of 86,549 candidates appeared for the Engineering Entrance Examination, with 76,230 successfully qualifying. From these, a comprehensive engineering rank list was prepared for 67,505 candidates who had submitted their marks within the stipulated timeframe. In the Pharmacy Entrance Examination, 33,425 candidates participated, and 27,841 candidates were successfully included in the Pharmacy rank list. Leading the engineering cohort, John Shinoj from Ernakulam secured the coveted first rank, closely followed by Hari Krishnan Baiju, also from Ernakulam, who claimed the second position. Akshay Biju from Kozhikode attained the third rank, with Adl Zayaan, also from Kozhikode, securing the fourth. The fifth and sixth ranks went to Joshua Jacob Thomas and Emil Ipe Sacharia, both from Thiruvananthapuram. Mahir Ali T and Dani Firas Payyanakadavan, both from Kozhikode, took the seventh and eighth positions respectively, while Dhiya Roopa B R from Kollam and Jayyash Muhammed K from Malappuram rounded out the top ten.
