In simple words : Mock allotment gives you the results of the first round of counselling considering the options and the order of preference of the options last saved at that time by all students who have registered till then.

It means that if that was the last day for locking the choices, the results of first round of counselling would have been like that.

This gives you a fair idea about what you will be getting in the actual first round and also helps you correct the mistakes in the options filled and their order (order of filling the choices holds a prime importance).

A lot of students ask the reason for the difference between the results of 1st and 2nd round of mock allotment.
It is due to the following reasons :

• Not all the students had registered for counselling till the first round.
• Many students may have changed their minds and edited their options to add or remove some of them.
• Students realised that the order of preference that they had saved is not correct. Thus they rearrange the order to get a better option.

In this round, you do not have to do anything except to ensure that your choices are best filled according to your interests and edit them accordingly. This round helps in obliterating the errors in filling which may have crept either due to the lack of information or by human error.

Also please note that it gives only a rough idea of the results of acutal 1st round, so the actual allotment result may vary with the edits done by the students before the last date of locking.