GATE 2025 Branch-wise Cut-offs: Minimum qualifying marks required to get in top IITs, NITs
GATE 2025 will have a total of 30 test papers comprising full papers and sectional papers. Every test paper has 65 questions carrying a total of 100 marks.
Student can predict their estimated score in GATE 2025 exam based on expected marks.
Try NowAnu Parthiban | December 28, 2024 | 06:12 PM IST
NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) will be conducting the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2025) from February 1 to 16 for admission into various undergraduate (UG) programmes in engineering, technology, architecture, science, commence, arts, and humanities.
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The GATE score will be used for offering admission at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), and Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru (IISc). The marks obtained in the national-level will also be used for recruitment of engineers for executive positions in various Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs).
Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Corporation Limited (IOCL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) are some of the organisations which will use the GATE score for shortlisting candidates for its vacant posts.
GATE marking scheme
GATE 2025 will have a total of 30 test papers comprising full papers and sectional papers. Every test paper has 65 questions carrying a total of 100 marks. General Aptitude (GA) section will have 10 questions carrying a total of 15 marks which will assess candidates language and analytical skills.
“In test papers AE, AG, BM, BT, CE, CH, CS, EC, EE, ES, GE, IN, ME, MN, MT, NM, PE, PI and TF, the General Aptitude section will carry 15 marks and the remaining 85 marks are devoted to the subject component, out of which engineering mathematics will carry 13 marks,” IIT Roorkee said.
GATE qualifying and admission cut-offs
IIT Roorkee will be conducting the exam in multiple sessions. The raw marks obtained by candidates in different sessions will be converted to normalised marks for that particular subject. Subsequently, the raw marks for single session test papers or normalized marks of multiple sessions will be used for computing the GATE score.
There are two types of GATE cut-offs - qualifying and admission. GATE qualifying cut-off means the minimum marks required for clearing the entrance exam and GATE admission cut-off are published by the respective participating institutes, which sets a minimum mark criteria to get admission.
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GATE branch-wise cut-off
Candidates who aspire to pursue masters’ programmes in engineering, technology, arts, science, and humanities can check the branch-wise GATE qualifying cut-offs of this year in the table given below. This will also help candidates to set a target and increase the chance of getting admission in top IITs, NITs, IISc.
|
GATE Paper Code |
General |
OBC-NCL, EWS |
SC, ST, PwD |
|
Aerospace Engineering |
33.3 |
29.9 |
22.1 |
|
Agricultural Engineering |
25 |
22.5 |
|
|
Architecture and Planning |
41.5 |
37.3 |
27.6 |
|
Biomedical Engineering |
25 |
22.5 |
16.6 |
|
Biotechnology |
38.9 |
35 |
25.9 |
|
Civil Engineering |
28.3 |
25.4 |
18.8 |
|
Chemical Engineering |
25 |
22.5 |
16.6 |
|
Computer Science and Information Technology |
27.6 |
24.8 |
18.4 |
|
Chemistry |
25.2 |
22.6 |
16.7 |
|
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence |
37.1 |
33.3 |
24.7 |
|
Electronics and Communication Engineering |
25 |
22.5 |
|
|
Electrical Engineering |
25.7 |
23.1 |
17.1 |
|
Environmental Science and Engineering |
37.9 |
34.1 |
25.2 |
|
Ecology and Evolution |
35.8 |
32.2 |
23.8 |
|
Geomatics Engineering |
41.1 |
36.9 |
27.4 |
|
Geology and Geophysics (Geology) |
42 |
37.8 |
28 |
|
Geology and Geophysics (Geophysics) |
49 |
44.1 |
32.6 |
|
Instrumentation Engineering |
32.7 |
29.4 |
21.8 |
|
Mathematics |
25 |
22.5 |
16.6 |
|
Mechanical Engineering |
28.6 |
25.7 |
19 |
|
Mining Engineering |
25 |
22.5 |
16.6 |
|
Metallurgical Engineering |
41 |
36.9 |
27.3 |
|
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering |
25.1 |
22.5 |
16.7 |
|
Petroleum Engineering |
42.6 |
38.3 |
28.4 |
|
Physics |
32 |
28.8 |
21.3 |
|
Production and Industrial Engineering |
30.5 |
27.4 |
20.3 |
|
Statistics |
26.6 |
23.9 |
17.7 |
|
Textile Engineering and Fibre Science |
28.1 |
25.2 |
18.7 |
|
Engineering Sciences |
36.2 |
32.5 |
24.1 |
|
Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics) |
37 |
33.3 |
24.6 |
|
Humanities and Social Sciences (English) |
48 |
43.2 |
32 |
|
Humanities and Social Sciences (Linguistics) |
49.7 |
44.7 |
33.1 |
|
Humanities and Social Sciences (Philosophy) |
39.3 |
35.3 |
26.1 |
|
Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) |
52.7 |
47.4 |
35.1 |
|
Humanities and Social Sciences (Sociology) |
36 |
32.4 |
24 |
|
Life Sciences |
29.3 |
26.3 |
19.5 |
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