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AP EAPCET Exam Pattern

Every figure here is from the AP EAPCET 2026 instruction booklet.

AP EAPCET · checked 19 September 2026

AP EAPCET at a glance, from the official notices

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

AP EAPCET: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Notified 4 February 2026; applications 4 February – 24 March (late fee to 10 April); corrections 11–13 April; hall tickets 28 April; engineering…

    2026 cycle

  2. 02

    2,76,572 registered, 2,58,545 appeared, 1,82,317 qualified (70.52 per cent; women 71.65 per cent); agriculture and pharmacy 79,231 registered…

    2026 result (engineering)

  3. 03

    Not yet notified; the 2026 notice came on 4 February — expect the 2027 notification in February 2027 with the examination in May

    AP EAPCET 2027

  4. 04

    JNTU Kakinada on behalf of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education, computer-based, once a year, for B.E./B.Tech., B.Pharm., Pharm-D…

    Conducted by

Pattern

AP EAPCET — AP EAPCET exam pattern: 160 questions, no negative marking, normalisation and the 75:25 rank

AP EAPCET (engineering) is a three-hour computer-based test of 160 multiple-choice questions — Mathematics 80, Physics 40, Chemistry 40 — for 160 marks, one mark each with no negative marking, normalised across sessions and combined 75:25 with the intermediate marks for the rank.

Structure.
SubjectQuestionsMarks
Mathematics8080
Physics4040
Chemistry4040
Total160160
Rules.
RuleDetail
Marking+1 / 0 / 0
Qualifying40 of 160 (25 per cent); none for SC and ST
Rank75 per cent normalised EAPCET marks + 25 per cent intermediate group marks
SessionsMorning and afternoon over several days, normalised
2026 pass rate70.52 per cent engineering; 89.59 per cent agriculture and pharmacy

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