The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has released the official answer key to the Karnataka PGCET 2025 exam on the official website. Candidates who appeared for the Karnataka PGCET 2025 exam to pursue MBA, MCA, or M.Tech admissions can download the provisional answer key to calculate their score, before the announcement of the result.
Knowing your KEA PGCET 2025 score using the answer key is an important step to help students gain a better idea of their performance, evaluate their expected rank range, and to prepare for their PGCET counselling process as well. The official KEA PGCET answer key contains the right answers to all questions asked within the exam and will help students to compare their answers with the correct answers and calculate a rough score.
In this article, we will outline how to download the Karnataka PGCET answer key, provide step-by-step information on how to calculate the score, and what to do next should students want to challenge any answer through the KEA objection process.
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How to Calculate Karnataka PGCET Score Using Answer Key?
- Find the matching "official" answer key on the KEA website (cetonline.karnataka.gov.in/kea/) for your program (MBA, MCA, M.Tech etc.)
- Use your question paper or response sheet and mark off each answer against the official answer key.
- Give 1 mark for each correct answer.
- There are no negative markings in Karnataka PGCET 2025, so do not deduct marks for incorrect answers.
- For unanswered questions, skip it as you will not get any marks from it.
- Sum up all the correct answers numbers, and you get the estimated raw score.
- If for instance you got 55 out of 100 questions correct, your PGCET score is 55/100.
- Refer to any of the other parts (if any) e.g. Part A & Part B for M.Tech exams, or Verbal, Quant, etc. for MBA/MCA exam question papers, etc.
- We can use the estimated score to predict rank based on last year Karnataka PGCET marks vs rank trend.
- If you happen to find inaccuracies in the answer key, you may raise objections within the time frame specified by KEA.
How to Download Karnataka PGCET Answer Key?
Here are the steps to download the Karnataka PGCET 2025 Answer Key:
Step 1: Go to cetonline.karnataka.gov.in/kea/, the Karnataka Examination Authority's (KEA) official website.
Step 2: Find and click the "PGCET 2025 Answer Key" link on the homepage.
Step 3: Answer key links for several disciplines, including engineering, MBA, MCA, etc., will be displayed on a new page.
Step 4: Select the link for your stream by clicking on it.
Step 5: A PDF version of the answer key will open.
Step 6: Save the PDF for later use after downloading it.
KEA PGCET Counselling & Result Dates 2025
The following table presents all crucial dates and events related to Karnataka PGCET 2025.
Event | Date |
M.E./M.Tech/M.Arch Exam | May 31, 2025 |
MBA/MCA Exam | June 22, 2025 |
Provisional Answer Key Release | Late June 2025 |
PGCET 2025 Result Declaration | 2nd Week of July 2025 |
Phase 1 Counselling Begins | July/August 2025 |
Counselling Rounds (Tentative) | Round 1: October 2025 |
How to Download Karnataka PGCET 2025 Result?
- Visit the official website: kea.kar.nic.in
- On the homepage, click on the link labeled “PGCET 2025 Result”
- You will be redirected to the result login page
- Enter your PGCET 2025 application number and date of birth
- Click on the “Submit” or “View Result” button
- Your PGCET rank card / result will be displayed on the screen
- Download and save the result as a PDF for future reference
- Take a printout of the result as this will be required during counselling.
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