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IIT Bombay has released the GATE 2021 qualifying cutoff along with the result. The admission cutoff will be released by individual institutes.

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Ritu Tripathi | March 22, 2021 | 01:05 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) has released the qualifying cutoff of GATE 2021 along with the result on the official website . Candidates shortlisted on the basis of the GATE 2021 qualifying cutoff are eligible to participate in GATE COAP and CCMT counselling.

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Candidates will have to separately apply for COAP and CCMT counselling in order to get admission to the participating institutes. It must be noted the COAP is conducted for admission to IITs while CCMT counselling is conducted for admission to NITs, IIITs, and GFITs.

After the counselling process, the individual institutes will release the GATE admission cutoff 2021 for the final seat allotment of candidates. The authorities consider various factors for determining the GATE admission cutoff like number of seats, scores of candidates, choices of candidates. On the other hand, the qualifying cutoff, which is now available, is calculated by considering factors like difficulty level of exam, number of students appeared in exam, previous year cutoff trends.

GATE 2021 Cutoff (Qualifying)

Paper Code

Highest Score

Highest Marks (out

of 100)

Cut-off Marks (out

of 100)

AE

1000

84

26.3

AG

1000

61.33

25

AR

1000

79.67

40.9

BM

1000

64

25

BT

1000

75.33

30

CE*

1000

95.56

29.2

CH

1000

89.67

35.1

CS*

1000

87.81

26.1

CY

996

91.33

36.2

EC

1000

82

25

EE

974

85.33

30.3

ES

966

88

39.6

EY

1000

78

35.7

GG (Geology)

945

72.67

38.9

GG (Geophysics)

1000

68.67

44.8

IN

933

79

36

MA

1000

68.33

29

ME*

979

93.22

33

MN

1000

77.67

31

MT

923

87.67

48.5

PE

947

88.67

51.4

PH

1000

69.67

32.8

PI

939

83.67

35.7

ST

1000

51.67

25

TF

945

79.67

41.8

XE

1000

90.33

37

XH-C1

(Economics)

1000

62.67

29.4

XH-C2 (English)

986

77.67

41.7

XH-C3

(Linguistics)

1000

65.67

35.3

XH-C4

(Philosophy)

1000

71

37.9

XH-C5

(Psychology)

1000

77.33

48.5

XH-C6

(Sociology)

1000

66

34.3

XL

983

74.33

36

Here, * denotes normalized marks for multi-sessions.

Previous Year GATE Cutoff (Admission)- Top Institutes

Institute Name

M.Tech Programme

GATE Paper

Gen

OBC-NC

SC/ST

IIT Bombay

Computer Science and Engineering

CS

750

675

500

IIT Delhi

Mechanical Design

ME

725

650

SC- 500


ST- 300

IIT Kanpur

Mechanical Engineering

ME

833

791

SC- 663


ST- 482

IIT Delhi will be conducting GATE 2021 COAP counselling from May 13 . Candidates will be required to do GATE COAP 2021 registrations which will start tentatively in the third or fourth week of March.

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