MHT-CET Exam Date 2027

MHT CET 2026 is over. The State CET Cell, Maharashtra, held it in two attempts, April and May 2026, and counselling for the current academic year is in its final stage. This page carries every confirmed date of the 2026 cycle, from registration to the Centralised Admission Process (CAP), with the official CET Cell notice or a credible press report next to each one. For the exam itself, check the MHT CET exam pattern and the MHT CET syllabus.

📘OverviewFull exam profile: eligibility, pattern, fees and cutoff.See overview📝RegistrationFee, steps and the correction window.See registration🎫Admit CardDownload steps and exam-day documents.See admit card✅Answer KeyProvisional key, objections, final key.See answer key📊ResultRelease status and scorecard details.See result🎯CutoffCategory and college-wise cutoff trend.See cutoff

MHT CET 2026 ran in two attempts. The first attempt covered PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) from 11 to 20 April 2026 and PCB (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) from 21 to 26 April 2026. The second attempt covered PCB on 10 and 11 May 2026 and PCM from 12 to 21 May 2026 (excluding 16 and 17 May), after the CET Cell revised the PCM second-attempt window from an initial 12-16 May schedule due to the high number of registrations (Source: cetcell.mahacet.org revised notice; Careers360, Jagran Josh, KollegeApply, late April 2026). Registration, admit card, exam, answer key, result and CAP counselling are all complete, with CAP formally closed by the revised 14 September 2026 cutoff.

When did MHT CET 2026 registration open and close?

Registration opened on 10 January 2026 on cetcell.mahacet.org, for candidates applying to either the PCM or the PCB group, or both. The CET Cell first set 12 February 2026 as the last date, with a fee-payment-only extension to 13 February 2026. The Cell then extended the window twice more, to 24 February 2026 without late fee and 27 February 2026 with a late fee (Moneycontrol, 10 January 2026; KollegeApply, 21 February 2026, citing the CET Cell's final-extension notice). It briefly reopened registration once more, for candidates who had still missed every earlier deadline, on 19 and 20 March 2026 with an additional Rs 500 late fee (Source: cetcell.mahacet.org revised notice; Jagran Josh, Careers360, 18 March 2026). It then closed the window for good ahead of the April attempt.

A candidate registering under this window applied once for the whole cycle. The Cell did not reopen registration separately for the May attempt. For the fee amount by category and the document checklist, see MHT CET registration and application form.

Was there a separate correction window?

Yes, the CET Cell opened an online correction facility after registration closed, for candidates to fix photograph, category or subject-group errors before admit cards were generated. The exact correction dates sat inside the same notice that confirmed the final registration extension, so a candidate who registered late also had a shorter correction window. Details of what could and could not be corrected are on the MHT CET registration and application form page.

MHT CET 2026 never had one common admit card date. The CET Cell issued its first notice on the hall-ticket schedule on 17 March 2026, and then released each group's admit card separately, 3 to 4 days before that group's own exam started.

Sources: Jagran Josh (7 April 2026); Times of India and Indian Express (17 April 2026); Indian Express and news reports citing the CET Cell (6 and 8 May 2026 releases).

Why does the admit card come out so close to the exam?

Because MHT CET runs across many shifts and cities, and the CET Cell finalises each candidate's centre, date and shift only shortly before that shift begins. A city-intimation slip goes out first, followed by the actual admit card 3 to 4 days before the exam. A candidate registered for both attempts received two separate admit cards, one for April and one for May. Full download steps and the ID proofs to carry on exam day are on MHT CET admit card 2026.

MHT CET 2026's first attempt ran PCM from 11 to 20 April 2026, skipping 12 April, across 16 test sessions. About 4.54 lakh candidates appeared, out of roughly 4.79 lakh who had registered for that attempt. PCB attempt 1 ran from 21 to 26 April 2026 across 11 sessions, with about 2.63 lakh candidates appearing (source: the CET Cell's official PCM and PCB Attempt-1 press notes).

The second attempt reversed the usual order. PCB attempt 2 ran on 10 and 11 May 2026, and PCM attempt 2 ran from 12 to 21 May 2026 (excluding 16 and 17 May), after the CET Cell revised the window from an initial 12-16 May 2026 schedule set out in Public Notice No. TED-1125/C.R.56/CET 2026/703/2026 dated 16 March 2026, due to the high volume of PCM registrations (Source: cetcell.mahacet.org revised notice; Careers360, Jagran Josh, late April 2026). Each day carried two shifts, a morning and an afternoon session, as in earlier cycles.

Did every candidate have to appear for both attempts?

No, appearing for the second attempt was optional. The rule for 2026 is straightforward: a candidate's best percentile score, from either attempt, counts for the final merit list. A student happy with an April score could skip May entirely. The exam is a 100-mark, 90-minute-per-subject-group computer-based test with no negative marking. The full section-wise breakup sits on MHT CET exam pattern 2026.

Did MHT CET 2026 have any exam-day changes from previous years?

The two-attempt, best-of-two-scores structure itself was not new. It has run since 2023. What did change in 2026 was volume: PCM attempt 1 alone accounted for 16 separate test sessions, a scale the Cell needed to manage across hundreds of centres statewide.

Yes, MHT CET runs a formal, challengeable answer-key process. The CET Cell releases a provisional key first, opens a fixed objection window with a per-question fee, and only then publishes the final key after reviewing every valid objection. This runs separately for each subject group and each attempt, never as one combined national key.

Each objection costs Rs 1,000 per question challenged, paid online through the candidate's login, non-refundable if the objection is rejected. A candidate needed a textbook reference or an equivalent proof to support a challenge. The CET Cell's subject experts reviewed every valid claim before the final key went live. Full download steps, the exact scoring formula and how to file an objection are covered on MHT CET answer key 2026.

This confirms, for anyone comparing MHT CET with other entrance exams, that it does not skip straight to a single final key. Every group and every attempt got its own provisional-key, objection, final-key cycle in 2026, matching the pattern the Cell also followed in 2024 and 2025.

MHT CET 2026 results were declared group-wise and attempt-wise, not on one common date. PCB attempt-1 result came out on 9 June 2026. PCM attempt-1 result became accessible from 15 June 2026. PCB attempt-2 result followed on 18 June 2026, per the State CET Cell's own press note No. TED-1226/C.No.05/PCB Result/CET/2026/1441, dated 18 June 2026 — the official date to rely on over any third-party listing of 17 June. PCM attempt-2 result followed on 19 June 2026, per the CET Cell's press note No. TED-1226/C.No.05/PCB Result/CET/2026/1447.

A candidate's final percentile is the better of the two attempts, so the result that actually decides admission chances is whichever score is higher. The scorecard carries subject-wise and aggregate percentile, not raw marks, along with the qualifying status and All-India Rank. How percentile is calculated, and what each field on the scorecard means, is explained on MHT CET result 2026.

Why does MHT CET report percentile instead of a rank straightaway?

Because the exam runs across many shifts with different question papers, and percentile normalises scores across shifts before any rank or merit position is worked out. A raw mark from a harder shift is not directly comparable to one from an easier shift, so normalisation comes first.

CAP (Centralised Admission Process) 2026 for engineering, technology, pharmacy and other technical courses ran through four rounds between late July and early September 2026, followed by institutional-level rounds for seats still vacant after Round 4.

Sources: State CET Cell CAP schedule notices, cetcell.mahacet.org; cross-checked against Indian Express (Round 1 allotment, 3 August 2026) and Jagran Josh and Times of India (final cutoff date revised to 14 September 2026).

How many CAP rounds does MHT CET run?

MHT CET CAP runs four centralised rounds, followed by an institutional-level round for any seats still vacant after Round 4. A candidate who does not get, or does not accept, a seat in Rounds 1 to 3 can still take part in Round 4 and, if needed, the institutional round. For where your percentile stood in each round, see MHT CET cutoff 2026, and for which colleges came up at each cutoff level, see MHT CET colleges.

What happens if a candidate misses the CAP cutoff date?

A candidate who has not reported, verified documents and paid fees by the cutoff date risks losing the allotted seat, and the seat is treated as vacant for the next round. The 14 September 2026 date applied to every admission pathway, including CAP allotment and institute-level vacant-seat rounds, per the CET Cell's revised notice.