KEAM 2018 Online Application Fee & Payment methods: There will be an application fee of Rs.800 for general candidates and Rs.400 SC candidates. (A candidate who does not belong to SC/ST communities will be treated as ‘General’ candidate for the collection of application fee) ST candidates are exempted from payment of application fee.
Candidates choosing ‘Dubai’ as Examination Centre will have to remit an additional fee of
Rs.12,000/- by way of online payment. The additional fee can also be remitted by way of echalan, if payment is made inside India. (See clause 7.3.1 for more details) Such candidates
should give a local contact number, if available, in their application in the appropriate place. If the additional fee of Rs. 12,000/- is not paid by the candidates, they will be allotted a centre within the country.
Candidates desirous of getting admission to Architecture Course and possessing the required minimum qualification mentioned under Clause 6.2.3 will have to appear for the “National Aptitude Test in Architecture” (NATA), conducted by the Council of Architecture. They should appear for NATA in such a manner that they can submit their NATA score to the CEE as stipulated in clause 9.7.9. The details will be notified separately. Candidates applying for the Engineering and/or Medical streams and opting for Architecture also will have to appear for the ‘National Aptitude Test in Architecture’, as mentioned above. The candidates are advised to qualify in NATA on or before 10.06.2017.
KEAM 2018 Mode of Payment of Application Fee:
Candidate can pay application fee in either of the two following methods:
(a) Online Payment: The fee may be paid by credit card/debit card/Internet Banking. On
successful payment of fee, a Payment Confirmation Page will appear displaying the message
‘Transaction Successful’. If the payment is unsuccessful, the message ‘Transaction
Unsuccessful’ will be displayed. Due to communication failure, if the outcome of the
payment attempt is not displayed, the ‘Payment’ tab in the candidate’s home page should
be checked to see if it has turned green. If not, the transaction was unsuccessful and the
payment needs to be made again and ensure that it’s successful. If the amount was debited
from the account of the candidate for an unsuccessful transaction, the debited amount will
be reverted to that account within 5-7 working days.
(b) E-chalan: In case of payment through e-chalan, the payment should be made in the
selected branches of State Bank of Travancore (SBT) in India or all Head /Sub Post Offices in
Kerala, in cash. The e-chalan generated from the website after online submission of the
application should be handed over to the bank/post office, as the case may be, and after
depositing the fee plus processing charge, as applicable, the counterfoil(Candidate’s copy)
of the e-chalan must be collected back from the bank/post office official. It must be
ensured that the bank/post office official has recorded the Payment ID pertaining to the
payment on the counterfoil and put the office stamp and his/her initials at the designated
places on the counterfoil. If the payment was successful, the ‘Payment’ tab in the
candidate’s home page turns green. Candidates are advised to login to the website and
examine the ‘Payment’ tab to make sure that the fee status has been updated by the
bank/post office official. If the payment tab has not turned green, the candidate should
immediately contact the concerned bank/post office and get the payment status updated.
On successful Payment, the required entries in the application will be made automatically.
KEAM 2018 Fee Refund: The Application fee/additional fee once remitted will not be refunded under any circumstances.