With the seat selection process kicking off for professional courses, Karnataka Examination Authority(KEA) has put up the cut off ranks for medical and engineering seats in the past four years.

The cut offs for Bangalore Medical College (BMC), the most sought after college in the state was 204 (general merit) last year. This was after the intake was increased. Prior to that, the cut offs were much below the top 100. In 2008, it was 89, in 2009 it was rose upto 97 and in 2010 it was 86. With around 150 more seats expected to be sanctioned this year, the cut off ranks will rise. As for the engineering seats, RVCE ( R V College of Engineering) remained the most favourite among the aspirants over the years. The cut off for electronics and computer science here were 396 and 408 respectively. It was as low as 78 and 470 in 2008. The ranks were 163/581, 127/350 for these two courses in the subsequent years.

The list of cut off ranks will give students an idea as to which colleges they can look forward to while applying this year.