COMEDK 2020 refers to the engineering entrance exam conducted by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka for admission to more than 120 colleges. Another body Unigauge has over 20 colleges as its members. There will be a single combined exam for COMEDK and Unigauge, and it will be held on May 10, 2020.
Application forms for the engineering entrance exam will be available from January 2020. The official website of COMEDK is comedk.org, and that if Unigauge is unigauge.com, and from these official websites, candidates will be able to apply.
Unigauge has been the first of the two bodies to make announcement for the exam date. Details of the upcoming exam are yet to be available at the website of COMEDK.
Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) and Era Foundation’s Uni-GAUGE were being held separately for admission in engineering colleges under COMEDK and UNi-Gauge respectively until the year 2016.
From 2017 onwards, both the exams have been combined and is now held in computer based test mode across the nation. Up until last year the only difference was in the scorecard and counselling process of the two exams. The candidates attempted only one exam, but got 2 scorecards. One for Uni-GAUGE and the other for COMEDK. Using the scorecards the candidates can choose to attend counselling either under COMEDK participating institutes or Uni-GAUGE participating colleges.
The eligibility to appear for the entrance exam is that the student must have passed or must be appearing in 10+2. The appearing candidates, however, have to submit the final result at the time of admission. It is expected that there will be a lower age limit of 17 years, for which the cut off date to calculate age is likely to be December 31, 2020. COMEDK-Unigauge 2020 will be open for students all across India. Domicile is not required.
Going by last year’s exam, it is expected that upon getting the COMEDK scorecard candidates will participate in centralized counseling by COMEDK at Bangalore. However, using the Uni-GAUGE scorecard, there are expected to be separate counsellings at individual member universities of ERA Foundation.
Under the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) there are 198 BE colleges, 17 MBA colleges, and 22 BDS colleges. Under Uni-GAUGE there are 20 B.Tech colleges.
COMEDK and Uni-GAUGE exam will be both held in the online mode across various cities in India. In the exam the candidates are expected to face a MCQ based question paper of 180 marks, in 3 hours. If the pattern remains same as last time then there will be 60 questions each from physics, chemistry and maths.
The engineering entrance exam in Karnataka for government colleges is KCET. Details of the same will be announced by Karnataka Examinations Authority shortly. Its application form is also expected to be available January 2020 onwards.
