GATE 2026 Qualifying Marks for General: IIT Guwahati will release the GATE 2026 exam qualifying marks for the general category online. Candidates can find the link for GATE 2026 cut-offs on the official website, gate2026.iitr.ac.in. Students will also be able to check the GATE qualifying marks for General 2026 in this article once released. Candidates whose score in the GATE exam is more than or equal to the qualifying marks will be considered for the counselling process. The cut-offs will be released once the GATE 2026 results are released. The GATE 2026 exam will be conducted February 7, 8, 14 and 15, 2026.
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The GATE Cutoff for the General Category will be released along with the results. Candidates will be able to check the GATE 2026 Cutoff Marks for General from the table given in the article. The authority will release the GATE cutoff marks for IIT and NIT online. The GATE 2026 qualifying marks for general candidates pdf link will be provided below. For more details regarding the GATE 2026 General Category Qualifying Score, refer to the full article below.
The authority will release the GATE 2026 cut-offs after the commencement of the exams. The conducting body will release the cut-offs for GATE 2026 on the official website, gate2026.iitr.ac.in. The GATE cut-off will be released category-wise for different courses and different colleges. Candidates can check the previous year's GATE cut-off category-wise in this article.
The authority released the GATE General Cutoff Trends on the official website. Candidates can check the expected cutoff for Category wise in the table below.
GATE Paper Code | GATE General Qualifying Marks |
|---|---|
Aerospace Engineering | 34 |
Agricultural Engineering | 26 |
Architecture and Planning | 42.5 |
Biomedical Engineering | 26 |
Biotechnology | 39.9 |
Civil Engineering | 29.3 |
Chemical Engineering | 27.7 |
Computer Science and Information Technology | 29.2 |
Chemistry | 25 |
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | 29 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 25 |
Electrical Engineering | 26.7 |
Environmental Science and Engineering | 38.9 |
Ecology and Evolution | 36.8 |
Geomatics Engineering | 42.1 |
Geology and Geophysics (Geology) | 43 |
Geology and Geophysics (Geophysics) | 48 |
Instrumentation Engineering | 33.7 |
Mathematics | 25 |
Mechanical Engineering | 27.6 |
Mining Engineering | 24 |
Metallurgical Engineering | 40 |
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 24.1 |
Petroleum Engineering | 41.6 |
Physics | 31 |
Production and Industrial Engineering | 31.5 |
Statistics | 27.6 |
Textile Engineering and Fibre Science | 29.1 |
Engineering Sciences | 35.2 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics) | 38 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (English) | 49 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Linguistics) | 48.7 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Philosophy) | 38.3 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) | 51.7 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Sociology) | 37 |
Life Sciences | 28.3 |
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Candidates can check the GATE exam general category cutoff below.
GATE Paper Code | GATE General Qualifying Marks |
|---|---|
Aerospace Engineering | 33.3 |
Agricultural Engineering | 25 |
Architecture and Planning | 41.5 |
Biomedical Engineering | 25 |
Biotechnology | 38.9 |
Civil Engineering | 28.3 |
Chemical Engineering | 25 |
Computer Science and Information Technology | 27.6 |
Chemistry | 25.2 |
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | 37.1 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 25 |
Electrical Engineering | 25.7 |
Environmental Science and Engineering | 37.9 |
Ecology and Evolution | 35.8 |
Geomatics Engineering | 41.1 |
Geology and Geophysics (Geology) | 42 |
Geology and Geophysics (Geophysics) | 49 |
Instrumentation Engineering | 32.7 |
Mathematics | 25 |
Mechanical Engineering | 28.6 |
Mining Engineering | 25 |
Metallurgical Engineering | 41 |
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | 25.1 |
Petroleum Engineering | 42.6 |
Physics | 32 |
Production and Industrial Engineering | 30.5 |
Statistics | 26.6 |
Textile Engineering and Fibre Science | 28.1 |
Engineering Sciences | 36.2 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics) | 37 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (English) | 48 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Linguistics) | 49.7 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Philosophy) | 39.3 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) | 52.7 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (Sociology) | 36 |
Life Sciences | 29.3 |
| GATE Paper Code | GATE General Qualifying Marks |
|---|---|
ST: Statistics | 25 |
PH: Physics | 31.1 |
CS: Computer Science & Information Technology | 32.5 |
EC: Electronics & Communication Engineering | 29.9 |
CE: Civil Engineering | 26.6 |
IN: Instrumentation Engineering | 34.8 |
EE: Electrical engineering | 25 |
ME: Mechanical Engineering | 28.4 |
XE: Engineering Sciences | 37.9 |
CH: Chemical Engineering | 32.10 |
GATE Paper 2022 | GATE General Qualifying Marks |
|---|---|
CS | 25 |
ECE | 25 |
Biotechnology | 35.5 |
Chemical Engineering | 25.3 |
Statistics | 25 |
Metallurgical engineering | 46.2 |
GATE Maths cut-off | 27.3 |
Electrical engineering | 30.7 |
Textile engineering and fibre science | 36.8 |
Mechanical Engineering (ME) | 28.1 |
GATE Physics cut-off | 26.5 |
GATE Life Science Cut off (Botany/ Zoology) | 33.9 |
Ecology and life sciences | 33.4 |
Agriculture Engineering | 26.3 |
GATE Chemistry cut-off | 27.5 |
Mining Engineering | 25.5 |
Chemistry Engineering | 25.3 |
Civil Engineering | 31.4 |
Engineering Sciences (Fluid Mechanics/ Thermodynamics) | 40.3 |
GATE Paper 2021 | GATE General Qualifying Marks |
|---|---|
Geology and Geophysics | 44.8 |
GATE Civil Engineering Cut-Off | 29.2 |
Biotechnology | 30 |
GATE Mechanical Engineering Cut-Off | 33 |
Textile Engineering and Fibre Science | 41.8 |
GATE Chemistry cut-off | 36.2 |
GATE Maths cut-off | 29 |
GATE Electrical Engineering Cut-Off | 30.3 |
GATE Computer Science Cut-Off | 26.1 |
GATE Electronics and Communication Cut-Off | 25 |
Humanities and Social Sciences | 37.9 |
Instrumentation Engineering | 36.0 |
Paper Name | GATE General Qualifying Marks |
|---|---|
XL: Life Sciences | 31.7 |
CE: Civil Engineering | 32.9 |
EE: Electrical Engineering | 33.4 |
CS: Computer Science and Information Technology | 28.5 |
ME: Mechanical Engineering | 34.0 |
PE: Petroleum Engineering | 39.8 |
EC: Electronics and Communication Engineering | 28.8 |
CH: Chemical Engineering | 35.7 |
CY: Chemistry | 26.7 |
BT: Biotechnology | 30.7 |
XE: Engineering Sciences Minor | 26.0 |
TF: Textile Engineering and Fibre Science | 37.1 |
AE: Aerospace Engineering | 27.2 |
AG: Agricultural Engineering | 26.3 |
AR: Architecture and Planning | 34.8 |
EY: Ecology and Evolution | 42.2 |
GG: Geology | 38.4 |
GG: Geophysics | 51.9 |
IN: Instrumentation Engineering | 34.6 |
MA: Mathematics | 25 |
MN: Mining Engineering | 32.7 |
MT: Metallurgical Engineering | 49.2 |
PH: GATE Physics Cut off | 37.2 |
PI: Production and Industrial Engineering | 36.6 |
ST: Statistics | 25 |
BM: Biomedical Engineering | 25.0 |
IIT Guwahati will publish the GATE 2026 passing marks online. According to the standards set by the authorised bodies, only those students will be allowed to pass the GATE 2026 exam. The passing mark of GATE 2026 will depend on the difficulty level of the exam, the total number of candidates who appeared, the category of the candidates who appeared for the test and passing marks tendencies that were set by the GATE in the previous years.
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