GATE Application Form 2027 LIVE: IIT Madras to begin GATE registration soon; MTech, PhD entrance exam pattern

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) will announce the new dates for the GATE 2027 applications soon on its official website at gate2027.iitm.ac.in. Candidates seeking admission to various master's and doctoral programmes will be able to register for the GATE through the above mentioned official portal.

Earlier, the engineering institute had issued the GATE 2027 registration open dates. However, later the dates were removed and candidates now are awaiting a new registration date and time.

According to the official website, the GATE 2027 registration window will be closed by September 27.

IIT Madras will conduct the GATE 2027 examination on February 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, and 21, the official schedule read. The results will be declared on March 19, it added.

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GATE 2027 eligibility, DigiLocker

The institute has also notified the candidates to create or update their verified DigiLocker accounts before applying as DigiLocker registration is mandatory for GATE 2027.

As per the eligibility, candidates must be a graduate or studying in the last year of their degree programme or they should have completed a government-approved degree in engineering, technology, architecture, science, commerce, arts or humanities.

The GATE 2027 examination will be held in a computer-based mode, and the question paper will only be in English language. Each paper will be held for a duration of three hours and consists of 65 questions, carrying 100 marks.

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GATE 2027 marking scheme, exam pattern

Candidates will be given one or two marks for each correct answer depending on the partial marking that the question is carrying. Those questions worth one mark will have a negative marking of 1/3 marks, whereas, for 2-mark questions, 2/3 marks will be deducted.

Notably, there will be no negative marking for MSQ questions and there is no partial marking in MSQs.

Recently, the engineering institute added Robotic and Automation (RA) as a new GATE paper. It has also made changes to the Biotechnology (BT), Texting Engineering and Fibre Science (TF), Engineering Sciences (XE), humanities, social sciences, and life sciences papers.

The GATE 2027 is the gateway for admission to MTech and PhD programmes at IITs, National Institute of Technology (NITs), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs), and Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru (IISc), while several Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) accept GATE scores for recruitment purpose.