Step 2- Online Choice Filling and Locking: Students have to fill choices for the colleges and specialisation as per their preference during CCMT choice filling. Choice filling has to be done within specified dates in online mode by login to candidate portal of CCMT 2021. Candidates will see the list of institutes and their specialisations as per their rank in GATE. Students will be required to select the choices in order of preference and lock them before the final date of choice locking. It is very important to fill and lock the choices as allotment of seats will be done on the basis of choices filled by the candidate by considering the score in GATE.

Step 3 - Online Seat Allotment: Allotment of seats will be done through a centralised seat allotment procedure in online mode. Seat allotment is done in the order of merit of GATE score and as per the choices filled by candidates in CCMT counselling 2021. The result of CCMT seat allotment will be published in online mode. Students will be required to login to their candidates portal of CCMT 2021 to check their seat allotment process.

Students must note that three rounds of seat allotment, one internal sliding and National Spot round counselling will be done by CCMT. Seats which remain vacant in normal rounds and internal sliding are filled through a National Spot Round.

Step 4- Seat Acceptance Fee Deposit: Students who will be allotted seats during the seat allotment round will have to deposit the seat acceptance fees in online mode. Payment of seat acceptance fees is compulsory to confirm the seat allotted to students. The fee details of seat acceptance for CCMT counselling 2021 is as follows

Step 5- Physical Reporting at Reporting Centre: Students who have been allotted a seat and have paid the seat acceptance fees need to report to the nearest reporting centre for document verification and specifying the willingness towards acceptance or rejection of seat allotted to them. Reporting to the reporting centre is compulsory for every student after the allotment of seat and payment of seat acceptance fees. The following two procedure is to be done at reporting centre by candidate

Document Verification - Candidates have to carry all the documents related to educational qualification, category (if applicable) and other required documents in original and at least two xerox copies of each while reporting got document verification at regional centres. The authorised person will check and verify the original documents and will retain the xerox copies. Students will be issued the document verification slip after the successful verification of all documents.

Specifying Willingness - Students, while reporting to the reporting centre, have to specify their willingness of the allotted seat. Students have the following option to exercise

Floating: Students who wish to be considered in the next round for all of their better preferred choices and retaining the current allotted seat can select the “Floating” option

Sliding: Students who wish to be considered in the next round for their better preferred choices only within the Institute allotted to them have to select the “Sliding” option

Freezing: Students who are satisfied with the currently allotted seat and do not want to be considered for allotment of better preferred choices in the subsequent rounds.

If the allotted seat is of better preferred choice for a candidate who has specified her/his willingness as Floating/Sliding then, she/he will compulsorily forfeit the claim on the seat allotted to her/him in the earlier rounds

Step 6- Physical Reporting to the Allotted Institute for Admission: Students have to report to the allotted institute after the national upgradation round as per the schedule. Students will be issued a provisional allotment letter which they have to download from their candidate portal of CCMT 2021. Students have to carry the document verification slip received from the reporting centre and the downloaded provisional allotment letter while reporting to the allotted institute. Students must note that they must report to the allotted institute within the specified due date, which will be mentioned in their provisional allotment letter, failing which their seat will get cancelled.