GATE Cut-off 2025: Qualifying marks for IIT, NIT MTech admissions; branch-wise cut-offs
GATE 2025 will be conducted for 30 test papers from February 1. Candidates can check the previous year's category-wise GATE cut-offs for all subjects here.
GATE 2025 Syllabus
Candidates preparing for GATE 2025 can now access the official syllabus. The detailed syllabus PDF is available for download as PDF here.
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Anu Parthiban | January 29, 2025 | 12:23 PM IST
NEW DELHI: The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2025) will be conducted on February 1, 2 and February 15 and 16 by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee). With just a couple of days left for the exam, candidates can check the GATE subject-wise cut-offs to increase their chances of admission in the desired institute.
The computer-based test (CBT) is conducted to test candidates’ knowledge in the undergraduate courses in engineering, technology, architecture, science, commerce, arts, humanities.
Candidates opting to appear in two papers must have a primary choice of test paper. The second test paper must be chosen from the allowed combinations and the exam may be conducted in a different exam centre in the same city.
GATE 2025 will be conducted for 30 test papers. Each GATE paper will carry a total of 100 marks, of which the general aptitude section carrying 15 marks is the common for all papers. The remaining questions, which carry 85 marks, cover the respective test paper syllabus.
As per the marking scheme, questions carry 1 mark or 2 marks and there will be negative marking for wrong response.
- For a 1-mark MCQ - 1/3 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer.
- For a 2-mark MCQ - 2/3 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer.
However, there will be no negative marking for wrong answers to multi-select questions or NAT questions. There will be no partial marking in MSQ, the institute informed.
Subject-wise GATE cut-offs 2025
The Computer Science and Information Technology (GATE CSE) was the most popular course, with 1,52,652 candidates registering for the exam last year. Second in the list is the civil engineering course. Candidates appearing in the exam can check the paper-wise GATE cut-offs of previous year for all categories.
Paper Code | Test Paper | Number of candidates registered | Number candidates appeared | Cut-off (General) | Cut-off (OBC-NCL, EWS) | Cut-off (SC, ST, PwD) |
AE | Aerospace Engineering | 6,931 | 5,255 | 33.3 | 29.9 | 22.1 |
AG | Agricultural Engineering | 2,777 | 2,362 | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
AR | Architecture and Planning | 11,450 | 9,080 | 41.5 | 37.3 | 27.6 |
BM | Biomedical Engineering | 2,345 | 1,860 | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
BT | Biotechnology | 21,210 | 17,078 | 38.9 | 35 | 25.9 |
CE | Civil Engineering | 1,08,136 | 85,869 | 28.3 | 25.4 | 18.8 |
CH | Chemical Engineering | 16,930 | 13,937 | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
CS | Computer Science and Information Technology | 1,52,652 | 1,23,967 | 27.6 | 24.8 | 18.4 |
CY | Chemistry | 35,382 | 26,825 | 25.2 | 22.6 | 16.7 |
DA | Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | 52,493 | 39,210 | 37.1 | 33.3 | 24.7 |
EC | Electronics and Communication Engineering | 78,157 | 63,092 | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
EE | Electrical Engineering | 73,728 | 59,599 | 25.7 | 23.1 | 17.1 |
ES | Environmental Science and Engineering | 8,847 | 6,445 | 37.9 | 34.1 | 25.2 |
EY | Ecology and Evolution | 3,336 | 2,359 | 35.8 | 32.2 | 23.8 |
GE | Geomatics Engineering | 3,238 | 2,491 | 41.1 | 36.9 | 27.4 |
GG1 | Geology and Geophysics (Geology) | 7,154 | 5,574 | 42 | 37.8 | 28 |
GG2 | Geology and Geophysics (Geophysics) | 1,037 | 822 | 49 | 44.1 | 32.6 |
IN | Instrumentation Engineering | 12,451 | 9,900 | 32.7 | 29.4 | 21.8 |
MA | Mathematics | 17,617 | 13,425 | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
ME | Mechanical Engineering | 83,114 | 65,546 | 28.6 | 25.7 | 19 |
MN | Mining Engineering | 8,515 | 7,046 | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
MT | Metallurgical Engineering | 3,858 | 3,111 | 41 | 36.9 | 27.3 |
NM | Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 517 | 361 | 25.1 | 22.5 | 16.7 |
PE | Petroleum Engineering | 2146 | 1770 | 42.6 | 38.3 | 28.4 |
PH | Physics | 26,475 | 20,258 | 32 | 28.8 | 21.3 |
PI | Production and Industrial Engineering | 4,915 | 3,725 | 30.5 | 27.4 | 20.3 |
ST | Statistics | 2,663 | 1,694 | 26.6 | 23.9 | 17.7 |
TF | Textile Engineering and Fibre Science | 1,765 | 1,422 | 28.1 | 25.2 | 18.7 |
XE | Engineering Sciences | 14,941 | 11,261 | 36.2 | 32.5 | 24.1 |
XH-C1 | Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics) | 3,748 | 2,721 | 37 | 33.3 | 24.6 |
XH-C2 | Humanities and Social Sciences (English) | 5,488 | 3,900 | 48 | 43.2 | 32 |
XH-C3 | Humanities and Social Sciences (Linguistics) | 368 | 277 | 49.7 | 44.7 | 33.1 |
XH-C4 | Humanities and Social Sciences (Philosophy) | 513 | 340 | 39.3 | 35.3 | 26.1 |
XH-C5 | Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) | 4,872 | 3,415 | 52.7 | 47.4 | 35.1 |
XH-C6 | Humanities and Social Sciences (Sociology) | 1,566 | 1,020 | 36 | 32.4 | 24 |
XL | Life Sciences | 44,904 | 36,275 | 29.3 | 26.3 | 19.5 |
TOTAL | 8,26,239 | 6,53,292 |
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