A Simple Guide to the MHT-CET CAP Rounds

What is CAP?

CAP stands for the Centralized Admission Process. After results, eligible students register, fill an option form listing colleges and branches in order of preference, and seats are allotted by merit, category and preference.

The rounds at a glance

CAP usually runs in multiple rounds. After each round you can accept your seat, wait for a better one, or improve your preferences for the next round depending on the rules in force that year.

Building a smart option form

• Order by genuine preference, not just by college fame. The system tries to give you the highest preference you qualify for.
• Mix ambitious, realistic and safe choices so you are never left without a seat.
• Use your predicted percentile and category to estimate which colleges fall into each bucket — that is exactly what our College Predictor is for.

Common mistakes to avoid

1. Filling too few options.
2. Ignoring colleges slightly outside your city that match your branch goals.
3. Treating last year's cutoff as fixed — cutoffs move every year.

Plan early. The students who do best in CAP are usually the ones who understood their realistic range before the forms opened.