About KEAM 2023

Kerala Engineering Agricultural Medical Entrance Exam 2022 Commissioner of Entrance Examination (CEE) of Kerala conducts Kerala Engineering Agricultural and Medical Entrance Exam (KEAM) to provide admission into engineering, pharmacy, architecture, agriculture courses at graduate level in colleges located across Kerala.

This is a state level exam conducted once a year and students who wish to do graduation in the fields mentioned above can aim for this exam. 

The notification is released on the official website of CEE at appropriate time every year. Candidates can submit applications after the notification is released. For 2023, the application submission has begun. Application submission can be done from 17.03.2023 to 10.04.2023. The exam will be conducted on 17.05.2023.

Candidates can visit the official website and click the link for registration and create an account comprisiing username and password. Post creation of account, they can login with help of password and username obtained during the registration and start filling the form, they can upload the required documents, pay the registration fees and then submit the form.

Post application form submission, applicants have to appear for a written test. The exact schedule, time, and location of the test centre will be communicated through registered e-mail id or through other source. The written test will be conducted in offline mode and questions related to mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology have to be answered in 5 hours.

There are two papers in the exam - Paper 1 (Physics and Chemistry), Paper 2 (Mathematics). Students aiming for BPharmacy course through this exam have to appear for Paper 1, students aiming for BTech program admission have to appear for Paper 1 and Paper 2. Admission to other programs like medical courses, agriculture, co-operation & banking, climate change & environmental science,  B.Tech Biotechnology (Under Kerala Agricultural University), Forestry, Veterinary and Fisheries courses are regulated on the basis of merit as assessed in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) . Admission into courses of BArch is done based on score in NATA conducted by CoA.

Candidates who pass the exam with the required score (minimum qualifying marks or cutoff marks) will be called for further admission procedure. Cutoff marks will be set and candidate's score in the exam has to be equal to the set cutoff marks or above it.

Candidates can compare their score with the set cutoff marks,  If they find their score to be either equal or greater than cutoff, they can take part in the counselling process. Information about the exam is provided below in a tabular format for the sake of the students:

KEAM Main Features

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