GATE 2025 Exam - Exam Date, Registration, Pattern, Syllabus, Sample Papers, Cutoff, Previous Year Papers

GATE 2025 exam dates for all the branches have been released at gate2025.iitr.ac.in. The GATE 2025 exam will be held on February 1, 2, 15 and 16, 2025. The GATE 2025 registration and application form correction process is over. PwD students could make modifications and changes in their GATE application form 2025 till November 22, 2024. Students can check out the GATE application form status and download their forms. Registered students will be issued GATE 2025 admit card on January 2, 2025. IITs conduct a GATE exam every year in February for admission to M.Tech courses in IITs, NITs, GFTIs, and IIITs. Apart from these premier institutes, various engineering colleges in India accept the GATE score. Public Sector Undertakings, also known as PSUs consider the GATE score for recruitment into various posts. Students must note that the GATE syllabus and the PYQs are already available. Students who are pursuing a 3rd-year B.Tech can also appear for the GATE exam as it is a good opportunity to understand the nature of the exam, pattern, and questions. GATE score comes with a three-year validity either for M.Tech admission or PSU recruitment through COAP counselling. 

IIT Roorkee has added 10 more cities in the GATE exam centres 2025 list. Authorities may declare other two-paper combinations, depending on infrastructure availability and scheduling feasibility. As per the latest announcement on GATE 2025, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) will recruit utilizing the GATE 2025 results for CE, CH, EC, EE, IN, and ME test papers. BSBE Department, IIT Kanpur will admit MTech students through the GATE 2025 examination.

IITs and IISCs administer the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) test every yeart. It follows an 8-year rotation pattern in which each institute conducts the GATE Exam at regular intervals. The GATE office of the specific institute's zone, one of the eight zones where the GATE exam will be held, is in charge of overseeing GATE exam-related activities. GATE 2025 will be held by IIT Roorkee. 

Students can check out the GATE conducting body of the last 5 years below. 

Here are some of the major highlights of the GATE exam -

Here are the dates of the GATE exam along with the detailed schedule for all events - 

Here is the list of test papers available in the GATE exam. Each student can choose a minimum of two papers while filling the application form -

The authorities have issued a list of new GATE two-paper combinations for the registered students. Students can update their two paper combinations between November 14 to 20, 2024.  These are in addition to the two-paper combinations offered in the normal and extended application windows (see Table 1 below).

Students who had previously taken only one paper might now select a second paper from the new two-paper combinations (see to Table 2 below). Students who have previously taken two papers could only change the second one. Students who desired to add a second paper from the existing two paper combinations (see Table 1 below) could do so for a regular fee with a penalty.

Here is the complete list of two paper combinations for the GATE exam. The students must note that the second paper opted by them should match the first test paper.