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Vertical reservation allocates a percentage of total seats to a social category, and horizontal reservation then operates as a sub-quota within each vertical category rather than across the whole pool. Candidates in reserved categories also compete for unreserved seats on merit.
Category seats
Category seats = Total seats x Category quota %
Horizontal seats
Horizontal seats = Category seats x Horizontal quota %
Unreserved seats
Unreserved = Total seats x (1 - Total vertical reservation %)
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Yes. Unreserved seats are open to all on merit, so high-scoring reserved-category candidates are placed there first.
So that the benefit of, for example, a women's quota is distributed across all social categories rather than concentrated in one.