If you're allotted this seat and a better one might open the next round — do you hold it and stay in for the upgrade, or let it go?

Round 1 is a free exit — not joining costs nothing. From Round 2, not reporting to an allotted seat forfeits your ₹2 lakh security deposit. At JIPMER Karaikal, about half kept it; half upgraded out — of 61 allotted in 2025, 26 reported and kept it; the rest upgraded out. Across counselling last year, 6,686 students let a Round-1 seat go chasing better — and 6 in 10 of them ended the year with nothing. So name it now, in the calm: a seat you'd hold, or one you'd release. The safe way to reach higher is to report and stay in for the upgrade — you keep this while you try to move up. On result day you get hours, not days.

Where does this college go on your list — a reach you'd take, or an anchor you're glad to hold?

MCC walks your list top-down and gives you the highest seat your rank reaches — nothing below it is ever looked at. The order is the seat, not the rank. Students who took JIPMER Karaikal in 2025 had placed it at a median of #5 on their list, and 6% put it at #1. Put a seat you'd settle for above one you'd choose, and it's the one you get. Name where this goes — above the seats you'd rather have, or below them as the anchor you're sure to hold.

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JIPMER Karaikal

Karaikal, Puducherry · 61 MBBS seats

59 students took this seat last year. 28 gave it up to try for something better — 23 ended the year with no seat at all.

The other 5 did find a seat elsewhere — at Jipmer Karaikal; Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College & Research Institute, Bengaluru; Aiims, Rai Bareli.

3 kept this seat and still moved up to a better one later.

The students who took it ranged from AIR 1,596 all the way to AIR 476,905 — the same seat, very different starting points.

General · 2025 ranks

AIR 2,123 – 5,731

Paid seat · fee

₹6,770/yr

Deposit

₹10,000

Report & keep

1 in 2

After allotment: report, keep, or upgrade

Most upgrade out to a higher choice

Of 61 who got a seat here in 2025, 26 reported and kept it — 1 in 2. Most upgraded to a higher choice — for many, this seat was a step, not the finish.

Round 1 closed at ~AIR 2,551. How did AIR 5,731 still get in?

Order these — the highest your list reaches is yours

At AIR ~5731, this is what actually sat on the list.

JIPMER Karaikal

Tamil + English ₹6,770/yr bond not listed not a main city IP door

Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh

Hindi + English ₹36,000/yr bond not listed not a main city AMU quota

AIIMS Madurai

Tamil + English ₹1,628/yr bond not listed main city IP door

Government Medical College, Patiala

Punjabi + English ₹1.9L/yr ₹20L bond · 2yr not a main city PB PG quota

Guwahati Medical College

Assamese + English ₹10,400/yr ₹30L rural bond · 5yr main city AS PG quota

MCC gives you the highest seat your order reaches — and never shows you the one just below it. Which would you put first? — run the mock.

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Ranks, fees, NRI fee and scholarship tiers from Formity's gated 2025 MCC engine and the official fee record — read per college, never estimated. A figure left blank isn't confirmed from an official source. Data ends at Round 3; stray/mop-up rounds follow.

JIPMER Karaikal

After allotment: report, keep, or upgrade

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