GATE 2025 PE Expected Qualifying Cutoff Marks

GATE 2025 PE Expected Qualifying Cutoff Marks: The GATE 2025 Petroleum Engineering (PE) qualifying cutoff marks will be released by IIT Roorkee following the GATE 2025 exam. The paper-wise cutoff scores will be released along with the GATE 2025 result on March 19, 2025. The cutoff scores are the minimum qualifying marks required to pass the GATE PE exam 2025. The cutoff scores are released separately for all the categories, namely General, OBC/EWS, and SC/ST/PwD. The GATE 2025 cutoff scores for Petroleum Engineering will be determined based on factors such as the number of students appeared, the overall difficulty level of the paper and compeition among examinees, the availability of seats in the GATE 2025 participating colleges, and the previous years' cutoff trends. Those of you who have taken the exam this year can get an estimate of the category-wise GATE 2025 PE expected qualifying cutoff marks on this page. Based on the cutoff analysis of the past few years, the GATE PE 2025 cutoff scores for the General, OBC/EWS, and SC/ST/PwD categories are expected to be around 42-44, 28-29.5, and 38-39 respectively. 

The Petroleum Engineering paper in GATE does not have many takers. Usually around 1,700-2,000 students sit for the exam every year. However, only about 20% of the total examinees pass the exam. In 2024, 1,770 students opted for the GATE PE paper, of which only 386 met the minimum qualifying cutoff score. In this article, we have provided the category-wise GATE 2025 PE expected qualifying cutoff marks along with the cutoff mark trends from the past few years. 

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GATE PE 2025 General Category Expected Qualifying Marks

Over the years the GATE PE qualifying marks for the General category have changed significantly. In 2024, the GATE Petroleum Engineering cutoff stood at 42.6, which was much higher than the 34.4 recorded in the year 2023. As per the trends in 2025, the cutoff is expected to remain the same as last year. Check the GATE 2025 PE expected qualifying cutoff marks in the table below.

GATE PE 2025 SC/ST Category Expected Qualifying Marks

For the SC/ST category, the GATE 2025 PE cutoff score is expected to be between 28 and 29.5 marks. The highest GATE PE SC/ST/PwD cutoff marks were recorded at 34.9 in 2022, following which the cutoff dropped to 25.1 and 22.9 in 2022 and 2023 respectively. Have a look at the GATE 2025 PE expected qualifying cutoff marks for SC/ST category here. 

GATE PE 2025 EWS/OBC Category Expected Qualifying Marks

Over the past four years, the GATE PE EWS/OBC category qualifying marks have varied between 30.9 and 47.1, the highest being for the GATE 2021 exam. This year the GATE PE cutoff marks 2025 are expected to remain similar to the last year. The following table features the GATE 2025 PE expected qualifying cutoff marks and a comparison of the previous years' cutoff scores.