Telangana NEET Counselling 2025 Choice Locking
Telangana NEET Counselling 2025 Choice LockingA good NEET ranking means that you have already walked the half pathway to your medical journey. But what about the other half? Sometimes even top scorers lose out on their dream medical colleges just due to poorly locked choices.
Ever wondered how a single click can shape your medical journey of five and half years - this is the power of choice locking. Here is everything you need to know about choice locking before Telangana NEET Counselling 2025 to make sure that you make your choice count.
Overview of Telangana NEET Counselling 2025
The KNRUHS is responsible for conducting Telangana NEET Counselling 2025. The KNRUHS ensures fair allotment of MBBS and BDS seats to the students under government quota, management and NRI quota. There are a total of 2 counselling rounds and a mop up round if seats are still left vacant after round 2.
What is Choice Locking?
Choice locking is a crucial step in NEET Counselling registration where candidates finalize and confirm their preferences for the colleges. Once colleges are selected and locked, not even MCC can change these preferences. The colleges are chosen in order of preference; the first chosen college is given the most preference while allotting seats to the candidates.
Why Choice Locking is Crucial?
The choice locking is a final and very important step of NEET Counselling. The reason lies in the fact that failure to lock the chosen colleges will lead to auto locking of colleges and aspirants can not change once the choices are locked and you may miss out on the college of your dreams.
Important Timeline for Choice Locking
All the candidates who have registered for the NEET Counselling are eligible for choice locking. The candidates can get seats allotted in the Counselling rounds depending on their preference choices. It is crucial to have knowledge about the timeline to make sure that you do not miss on important dates.
Take a look at the table given below for tentative dates for choice locking.
Event | Tentative Dates |
Registration for Round 1 | June – July 2025 |
Choice Filling & Locking – Round 1 | July 2025 |
Round 2 Choice Locking | August 2025 |
Mop-Up Round Choice Locking | September 2025 |
Step by Step Guide for Choice Locking
Follow the below steps for the choice locking procedure.
- Visit the official website by CLICK HERE
- Log in to the portal using your NEET roll number and registered credentials.
- Fill in your college and course preferences.
- Review your choices thoroughly.
- Click on “Lock Choices”.
- Download and print the confirmation slip for reference.
Preference Statistics Insights
The top choices of aspirants are usually top government colleges due to low fees and good education quality. Check the below table.
Particulars | Details | Highlight |
Maximum Allowed Choices | Unlimited | KNRUHS has no upper limit to choose filling thus allowing aspirants to choose as many as colleges as they want |
High-rankers (Top 5,000) | 10–15 | Top rankers usually fill 10-15 choices, which are usually top government colleges. |
Mid-rankers (5,000–30,000) | 20–40 | Mid-rankers fill 20 to 40 colleges, usually a mix of government and top private colleges. |
Low-rankers (30,000 and beyond) | 40–60+ | Low rankers usually choose private colleges. |
NRI/Management Quota Applicants | 5–15 | NRI/Management quota candidates only opt for those colleges which undertake admissions in management and NRI categories. |
Check Our Telangana NEET College Predictor 2025
Check the table below for preferences.
Particulars | Highlights |
Maximum Choices Available | No Upper Limit |
Average Choices | 15 - 40 |
Locking Duration | 12 hours |
Registration Rate | 70 - 80% |
Timely Locking Rate | 60-70% |
Tips for Successful Choice Locking
You should take care of the following points before locking your choice for the colleges.
- Before you fill the colleges do a prior in depth research about the colleges, offering programas, facilities, faculty, fees structure to avoid any issues in later stages.
- Rank your preferences strategically according to your score, ranking and previous cut-offs. This will help you to ensure that you are choosing the perfect order. You can take help from counselling educators as well.
- Before locking, double check your preferences because once you lock your choices you can not change them.
- Do not rely on auto locking, always lock your choices manually to ensure that you have filled the colleges in your desired preferences.
- Do not wait for the last minute to fill and lock the choices. Be an early bird and fill and loc choices as soon as possible but don’t make haste.
- Always keep the screenshot and pdf of your locked choices for future reference.
Conclusion
Choice Locking is a very crucial and important step towards the medical journey. It is not only important but is also necessary that you take this step with all the care and do not make any urgent or immediate decisions. Make sure that you do all the research about the colleges, courses and fees on a prior basis.
Stay focused, prepare well and be updated with all the recent notifications related to the counselling to ensure a smooth journey to your dream medical college.