KCET results declared, Bengaluru’s Bhavesh Jayanthi secures Rank 1

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, May 24, 2025: The results of the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) 2025 results were announced here today with students from CBSE dominating the ranks in engineering stream.

Of the top ten ranks seven were from CBSE schools. Bhavesh Jayanthi from Bengaluru emerged as top ranker in engineering stream. He also emerged as second topper in Pharma-D.

Satwik B Biradar is the second engineering rank holder followed by, Dhinesh Gowthami Shankar Arunachalam. All the three top rank holders were from Bengaluru schools.

This year number of students eligible for admission to engineering courses decreased compared to last year.

This year a total of 2,62,195 students are eligible for engineering courses as against the 2.75 lakh students were eligibile last year.

Not just engineering, the eligiblity for all the courses has dipped this year.

As against the 2.19 lakh students eligible for BNYS course this year 1,98,679 got eligible.

B.Sc (Agri) this year a total of 2,14,588 got eligibility as against the 2.15 lakh during 2024.

Releasing the results, Higher Education Minister Dr MC Sudhakar revealed that grace marks have been awarded only for Physics subject. "One grace mark has been awarded in physics subject and in biology for one question two answers were considered and in Chemistry two answers were considered for two questions," said the minister.

However the minister attributed the reduction in eligibility to the reduced pass percentage in PUC 2 science students.

The students can get their results after 2pm https://karresults.nic.in