Thiruvananthapuram: The State Cabinet has approved the revised mark normalisation formula for the Kerala Engineering, Architecture, and Medical (KEAM) 2025 entrance examination. The exam results were published on Tuesday and are available on the official website of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations.

A government order amending the KEAM prospectus to reflect this change will be issued in the next two days. The delay in finalising the formula had caused uncertainty among students.

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The revision follows widespread concerns that students under the State syllabus, even those with high scores in both Plus Two and entrance exams, were being unfairly disadvantaged. The new formula was drafted based on recommendations from the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, following a report submitted by a four-member expert panel comprising statisticians and IIT professors.

New normalisation formula
Under the new system, the highest marks scored in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (or Computer Science/Biotechnology/Biology in cases where Chemistry was not studied) at the Plus Two level under each exam board will be taken into account.

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If the highest score in Physics under the Kerala State Board is 100 and under the CBSE or another board it is 95, both scores will be treated as 100 for normalisation purposes. If a CBSE student scored 70 out of 95 in a subject, the normalised mark would be calculated as 73.68 (70 ÷ 95 × 100 = 73.68). This conversion method will be applied to all three subjects and the total normalised score will be computed out of 300.

These subject-wise normalised marks will then be weighted in a 5:3:2 ratio with 150 marks for Mathematics, 90 for Physics and 60 for Chemistry, for the final engineering rank list. At the same time, different calculations will apply for candidates who completed their Plus Two exams in previous years.

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The final engineering rank list will be prepared based on a total index mark of 600, which combines the normalised Plus Two score (out of 300) and the normalised entrance exam score (out of 300)

In cases where exam boards use a grading system (such as A, B, C) instead of marks, students must produce certified mark lists from their respective boards. If such documents are unavailable, the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations will make a decision based on the available information.

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