GATE EE cutoff 2026: The IIT Guwahati will release the GATE EE cut-offs after the declaration of results. Candidates can check the GATE 2026 EE cutoff on the official website, gate2026.iitg.ac.in. The expected GATE cut-off for the general category is 26-29, 24-27 for OBC-NCL/EWS, 18-21 for SC/ST. The cut-offs for GATE exam usually vary every year depending on the number of seats available, exam difficulty, and trends. The GATE 2026 cutoffs will determine the minimum scores required for admission. It also helps to find their chances for recruitment in PSU’s. Applicants who will clear the cut-offs will be only eligible for GATE counselling 2026.
The authority declared the GATE results on March 19, 2026. Applicants can also use the GATE college predictor 2026 to know the best GATE colleges based on their exam scores. Read the full article for GATE EE cut-off 2026.
The authority will release the GATE cutoff 2026 on the official website. The GATE cut-offs for electrical engineering will be published separately for General, OBC-NCL/EWS and SC/ST. Candidates can check the expected EE cut-off for GATE 2026 from the table below:
GATE 2026 Electrical Engineering Cut-Offs-Expected
Category | Expected GATE EE Cutoff |
GEN | 26-29 |
OBC-NCL/EWS | 24-27 |
SC/ST | 18-21 |
The IIT Guwahati considers several factors while preparing the cut-offs for GATE 2026. Below are some of the factors that determine the cutoffs:
Exam difficulty level of the exam
Total number of aspirants who will appear for the exam.
Total vacant seats available for the course.
Previous Year cut-offs
The previous year GATE EE cutoffs for 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020 are mentioned in the table below. The previous year GATE cut-offs will help students to understand how the cut-offs have been changed and about the trends. In 2025, the electrical engineering cut-off for general category was 27.5, OBC-NCL/EWS was 25, and SC/ST/PwD was 20.
Year | Cut-off (GEN) | Cut-off (OBC-NCL/EWS) | Cut-off (SC/ST/PwD) |
2025 | 27.5 | 25 | 20 |
2024 | 25.7 | 23.1 | 17.1 |
2023 | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
2022 | 30.7 | 27.6 | 20.4 |
2021 | 30.3 | 27.2 | 20.2 |
2020 | 33.4 | 30.0 | 22.2 |
Applicants can check the GATE electrical engineering cut-offs for IITs. The general EE cutoff for IIT Delhi is around 735, 877 for IIT Kanpur, and 900 for IIT Madras. Below is the list of 10 NIT GATE EE cutoff mentioned below:
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) | Closing Rank | |||
General | OBC | SC | ST | |
735 | 720 | 535 | 495 | |
Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University Varanasi | 781 | 757 | 619 | 534 |
634 | 616 | 446 | 446 | |
827 | 711 | 591 | 449 | |
592 | 549 | 407 | 368.5 | |
74.66 | 74.31 | 63.35 | 56.16 | |
741 | 670 | 528 | 464 | |
900 | 813 | 683 | 594 | |
877 | 843 | 651 | 584 | |
775 | 746 | 558 | 416.9 | |
The electrical engineering GATE cut-offs for NIT can be checked from the table below. The general EE cutoff for NIT Jalandhar is 601, 818 for NIT Tiruchirappalli, 742 for NIT Surathkal, and 757 for NIT Warangal.
National Institute of Technology (NITs) | Closing Rank | |||
General | OBC | SC | ST | |
601 | 495 | 353 | 272 | |
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Power Electronics & Drives) | 737 | 615 | 456 | 383 |
National Institute of Technology, Warangal (Power Electronics & Drives) | 757 | 698 | 626 | 481 |
669 | 622 | 499 | 349 | |
NA | NA | NA | NA | |
601 | 520 | 387 | 307 | |
575 | 515 | 387 | 324 | |
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (Power Systems Engineering) | 660 | 626 | 481 | 379 |
National Institute of Technology, Surathkal (Power & Energy Systems) | 742 | 657 | 514 | 617 |
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (Power Electronics) | 818 | 737 | 673 | 464 |
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