IIT Bombay has released the Official GATE 2021 notification, and from GATE 2021, GATE examination will be conducted on the 27 Subjects (Papers). GATE Aspirants are expected to appear in a GATE paper, which is appropriate to the discipline of your qualifying degree by considering the GATE eligibility criteria.

GATE Aspirants must also learn about the Subject Code of their discipline while filling GATE application form and during the GATE examination. After the submission of GATE Application Form, candidates cannot change the paper.

Popular engineering streams on the basis of number of GATE exam takers are as follows -

Other important GATE papers with Subject Codes are listed as follow –

GATE Scores

GATE exam results are usually announced in the 3rd week of March (around 40 days from the GATE exam date). A gate score is calculated by the GATE exam conducting authorities by using the normalized or the actual marks of the candidates as per the GATE Paper they have appeared for.

The GATE score card consists of the following -

• GATE Score (on a scale of 1000)
• GATE Marks (out of 100)
• Qualifying marks for General, OBC and SC/ST/PwD categories.
• All India Rank
• Number of candidates appeared in the GATE paper

With the GATE exam results released, students wonder what GATE rank they can need to attain with the score they will be acquiring. Along with the GATE results, the conducting authorities also release the GATE qualifying cutoff marks. Based on the GATE score obtained by the candidates, they will be provided with a specific GATE rank with the help of which, they will further apply for their admissions in the different IIT / IISc institutes offering M.Tech program or gets you recruited in PSUs offering job through GATE.

Both Marks as well as GATE score is released because,

• Marks tells the candidates about their performance in his GATE question paper
• GATE Score is normalized score across the different sets of question papers. For Example, Because of the huge number of students, Mechanical Engineering (ME) is divided into 4 time slots on GATE exam date of students each of which get different sets of questions. Since the GATE Paper difficulty level might vary across the slots, the organizing body releases GATE score which can be used to compare and rank students in different time slots.

For admissions into the top IITs and IISc Universities, the student must have a good GATE score with the GATE rank below 200. GATE Scores are valid for a period of 3 years only from the date of announcement of the GATE exam results.

GATE Exam Application Fee for GATE candidates at examination centers in India:

GATE Exam Application Fee for GATE candidates at international centers: