MC Sudhakar, Minister for Higher Education and Sharan Prakash Patil, Minister for Medical Education releasing the CET guide in Bengaluru on January 2, 2026. | Photo credit: K. MURALI KUMAR
The Common Entrance Test (CET-2026), which is the gateway to professional courses, including engineering, in the state will be held on April 23 and 24. The online application process will begin on January 17.
The Canadian language test for candidates from Horanad and Gad will be held on April 22
The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) released the schedule for CET-2026 on Friday and this year along with CET, the schedule of all other exams including PGCET, DCET, KSET has been released.
On April 23, physics exams will be held from 10:30 to 11:50 a.m. and chemistry exams from 2:30 to 3:50 p.m.
On April 24, there will be a math exam from 10:30 to 11:50 a.m. and a biology exam from 2:30 to 3:50 p.m.
Kannada level 4 exam for Kannada Horanadu/Gadinadu candidates will be held on April 22 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM at Bengaluru, Belagavi, Mangaluru and Vijayapura centres.
Higher Education Minister MC Sudhakar told the media at the KEA headquarters, “For the first time, we have published ‘CET Guide’ available in both Kannada and English to help students fill the applications without mistakes. The same guide has been supplied to all pre-university (PU) colleges, including those affiliated to other boards.”
The CET guide had step-by-step information on filling out applications and necessary documents, the verification process and seat allocation. This year, KEA would open the Candidate Portal and the candidates would be able to download the copies of application form, admit card, verification slip etc. after logging into the portal.
“This time each candidate’s name, date of birth, address etc. has been verified through Aadhaar or DigiLocker. This will avoid mistakes while typing the name,” he added.
This year also the application is based on one time password (OTP) and after successful registration and login candidates can proceed to enter application details only after login and OTP or live photo verification. The genuine candidate has to provide his/her face identification at each subsequent stage.
Questions from practical exams
To decide to continue with the questions from the practical exams of the curriculum II PU Dr. Sudhakar said, “We have introduced practical exam questions in CET from 2025 and it will continue this year as well. Basically to make students focus on practical classes along with theory.”
Published – 02 Jan 2026 20:48 IST
