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GATE Chemical Engineering Cut Off 2026: IIT Guwahati has released the GATE chemical engineering 2026 cutoff through the result. This year, GATE CE 2026 cutoff for the general category is 25. Aspirants who cross the GATE 2026 cutoff are only eligible for admission to NIT, IIT, IIITs and GITs. The cut-off marks represent the minimum qualifying marks decided by the conducting authority for each paper and category. The GATE 2026 result has been declared on March 19. Candidates will be able to check the GATE chemical engineering cutoff 2026 on this page. In this article, candidates can check this year's cutoff for GATE Chemical Engineering below.
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The authority released the GATE 2026 CH qualifying cutoff thoguh result. Candidates can check the cutoff for GATE 2026 chemical engineering in the table below.
| GATE Chemical Engineering Cut off 2026 Category Wise | GATE 2026 Cutoff |
|---|---|
GATE Chemical Engineering cut off 2026 for general | 25 |
GATE Chemical Engineering cut off 2026 for OBC | 22.5 |
GATE Chemical Engineering cut off 2026 for SC/ST | 16.6 |
Candidates can check the official cutoff by following these steps:
Visit the GATE 2026 official website.
Click on the GATE Papers link
Select the Cutoff for Chemical Engineering
View the category wise qualifying marks
The results of the analysis of the GATE 2026 Expected CE (Chemical Engineering) Marks vs Rank can be used by its candidates to determine the approximate All India Rank on the basis of their raw marks in the exam.
| GATE CH Rank | GATE 2026 CH Marks |
|---|---|
1 to 10 | 80+ |
11 to 70 | 60 to 79+ |
71 to 260 | 50 to 59+ |
261 to 740 | 40 to 49+ |
741 to 1720 | 30 to 39+ |
1721 to 2630 | 20 to 29+ |
Candidates can check the previous year’s cutoff for GATE Chemical Engineering in the table below.
| Year | General | OBC-NCL | SC/ST |
|---|---|---|---|
2025 | 27.7 | 24.9 | 18.4 |
2024 | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
2023 | 21.4 | 28.8 | 21.4 |
2022 | 25.3 | 22.7 | 16.8 |
Year | General | OBC | SC/ST |
|---|---|---|---|
2025 | 500 | 450 | 333 |
2024 | 600 | 540 | 400 |
2023 | 600 | 540 | 400 |
2022 | 600 | 540 | 400 |
| Year | Max GATE Cutoff | Min GATE Cutoff |
|---|---|---|
2025 | 462 | 418 |
2024 | 447 | 353 |
2023 | 376 | 411 |
After evaluating the answers, the actual (raw) marks obtained by a candidate will be considered for computing the GATE score. For multi-session test papers, the raw marks obtained by the candidates in different sessions will be converted to normalized marks for that particular test paper. Thus, raw marks (for single session test papers) or normalized marks (for multi-session test papers) will be used for computing the GATE score, based on the qualifying marks.
Calculation of Normalized Marks for Multi-Session Papers
The normalized marks of the jth candidate in the ith session, denoted by ?ij, are computed as

Where,
Mᵢⱼ is the actual marks obtained by the j th candidate in the i th session;
?g/t is the average marks of the top 0.1% of the candidates considering all sessions;
?g/q is the sum of the mean and standard deviation marks of the candidates in the paper considering all sessions;
?t/i is the average marks of the top 0.1% of the candidates in the i th session;
Mᵢq is the sum of the mean marks and standard deviation marks of the i th session.
The GATE 2026 score will be computed using the formula given below.

Where,
? is the marks obtained by the candidate (actual marks for single session papers and normalized marks for multi-session papers);
?q is the qualifying marks for the General Category candidate in the paper;
?t is the mean of marks of top 0.1% or top 10 (whichever is larger) of the candidates who appeared in the paper (in case of multi-session papers including all sessions);
?q = 350 is the score assigned to ?q ; and
?t = 900 is the score assigned to ?t .
The GATE 2026 cutoff depends on a number of important determinants which include: the level of difficulty of the exam, the number of test-takers, and availability of seats.
Students performance in the GATE exam
Number of students appearing in the GATE exam
Number of seats available
Difficulty level of the GATE exam
Previous year cutoff
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
By the analysis of marks vs rank, 40 or above marks in GATE Chemical Engineering are usually equal to an All India Rank of about 261 to 740.
The GATE 2026 CE qualifying cutoff is roughly 25 for general, 22.5 for OBC and 16.6 for SC/ ST categories.
The authority will release the number of students who appeared for the GATE 2026 exam. In the previous year, 14843 candidates appeared for the Chemical Engineering paper.
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