Hello Sarah. I hope you are doing well. You want to know what do the abbreviations of the categories actually mean in Karnataka State Counselling procedures. Well, there are plethora of categories defined in which the candidates are segregated and allotted based on their social status, family income, domicile and other factors.

The list of the prevalent categories is provided below:

1. GM - General Merit
2. GMK - General Merit Kannada
3. GMR - General Merit Rural
4. 2AR - 2A Rural
5. 2AG  - 2A General
6. 2AK  - 2A Kannada
7. 2BG  - 2B General
8. 2BK  - 2B Kannada
9. 2BR  -  2B Rural
10. 3AG - 3A General
11. 3AK - 3A Kannada
12. 3AR - 3A Rural
13. 3BG - 3B General
14. 3BK - 3B Kannada
15. 3BR - 3B Rural
16. 1G  - 1 General
17. 1K  - 1 Kannada
18. 1 R - 1 Rural
19. SCG - Schedule Caste General
20. SCR - Schedule Caste Rural
21. SCK - Schedule Caste Karnataka
22. STR - Schedule Tribe Rural

I hope I have not missed any category to include to the list.

To know  about the cutoff trends in Karnataka for NEET UG based on previous years' data, consider referring to this article:

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-cutoff-karnataka

To know more about NEET UG overall Cutoff trends, follow this article:

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-cut-off

To know your admission chances in medical/dental colleges with NEET Score, to get a personalized report with Top MBBS & B.D.S Colleges and to check course & counselling wise cut-offs of NEET for various state quotas, caste groups etc., I encourage you to use NEET UG 2021 College Predictor:

https://medicine.careers360.com/neet-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=neet_rp

I hope you find this information helpful.

Thank you and have a beautiful day.