Kerala High Court quashes KEAM 2025 entrance exam results

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday (July 9, 2025) quashed the results of the Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) 2025 entrance examinations. The results were announced earlier this month.

Passing the order, Justice D.K. Singh stated that the revised method in KEAM 2025 to calculate the ranks adversely affected students who studied CBSE or ICSE syllabus in their higher secondary classes.

The order came on a petition filed by Hana Fatima Ahnus, a student who had appeared for the KEAM exam, stating that the weightage criteria was made after the release of the exam’s prospectus. The court termed this “an illegal move.”

The petitioner who appeared for the entrance exam to secure admission in engineering had alleged that the ranking procedure was amended on the date of publication of the rank list. This adversely affected her and that her rank was pushed to 4,209. A candidate who obtained similar marks in 2024 had been ranked 1,907, she said in her petition, and alleged that the amendment was “arbitrary, illegal and malafide.”

She further contended that this was made with “the oblique motive to do away with” the weightage given to CBSE and ICSE students.

The sudden change of the KEAM-2025 standardisation formula had left many students feeling frustrated and disillusioned as it impacted their expected ranks, following which many of them lodged complaints with the Kerala government, claiming that the normalisation method used this year was unfair and illogical.

It had been reported that last year, State higher secondary students had suffered due to the flawed standardisation process by the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations (CEE), which conducted KEAM. This year, however, CBSE and ICSE students were facing the brunt of it.

The Unaided Schools Protection Council (USPC), an umbrella body of private schools, too had moved the High Court against the new standardisation method.