How Many Marks are Required in GATE 2026 DA for IITs & NITs- Candidates can check this page for the marks in GATE 2026 DA for IITs & NITs. Entrance to colleges is based on the GATE DA score. Meaning, the GATE 2026 cutoff for admission is released in terms of score. The data varies with course, institute and category of applicant. However, candidates can check this page for the previous year's score in GATE DA for IITs and NITs to get an idea of the admission chances. The GATE 2026 exam was held on February 7, 8, 14 and 15.
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Aspirants can use the GATE 2026 college predictor to determine which college may offer admission based on their score.
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IIT Guwahati does not release any cutoff in the form of marks. Students can just refer to the GATE DA score for IITs and NITs given here. As per last year’s cutoff, candidates must have scored above 750+ to be able to get admission to top IITs. When it comes to NITs, students are advised to get above 600+ colleges.
GATE DA Marks | Rank |
90+ | 1 |
80-90 | 10 |
70-80 | 50 |
60 -70 | 170 |
50 - 60 | 500 |
40 - 50 | 1700 |
30 - 40 | 5000 |
20 - 30 | 12000 |
The following tables consist of the score required in GATE DA for IIT admission in 2025 All the branches provided below can be pursued based on GATE DA merit.
Program Name | Computer Science and Engineering | |
a) Artificial Intelligence (AI) | b) Internet of Things (IoT) | |
OBC-NCL | 721 | 706 |
SC | 569 | 564 |
GEN | 772 | 757 |
Category | Subject code- EET | Subject code- EEN |
GATE Paper/ B.Tech. Discipline- CS/DA/EC | GATE Paper/ B.Tech. Discipline-CS/DA/EE/EC/IN/PH | |
GEN | 760 | 772 |
OBC | 718 | 721 |
SC | 552 | 512 |
ST | 440 | 413 |
EWS | 761 | 788 |
Subject | Data Science |
GATE Paper | DA/CS/EC/EE |
General | CS-747 DA-565 |
EWS | CS-665 DA-620 |
OBC-NCL | CS-628 DA-518 |
SC | DA-424 |
ST | DA-299 |
Programmes | GATE paper | GEN | EWS | OBC- NCL | SC | ST |
M.Tech in Computational and Experimental Mechanics | AE, CE, CH, DA, GE, ME, MT, NM, XE | 675 | 507 | 528 | 474 | 385 |
M.Tech in Biomedical Engineering | AE, BM, CE, CH, CS, DA, EC, EE, GE, IN, ME, MT, NM, XE | 679 | - | 536 | 393 | 226 |
M.Tech in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | DA | 866 | 768 | 768 | 690 | 553 |
Stream: Control and Optimization | DA, EC, EE, IN | 772 | 547 | 627 | 452 | 358 |
M.Tech in Computational and Experimental Mechanics | AE, CE, CH, DA, GE, ME, MT, NM, XE | 618 | 497 | 513 | 347 | 283 |
M.Tech in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | DA | 843 | 744 | 737 | 682 | 483 |
Stream: Control and Optimization | DA, EC, EE, IN | 620 | - | 555 | - | - |
Aspirants can refer to the given content for the score required in GATE for NIT. The given list consists of GATE cutoff for NIT in 2025.
Category | GATE Maximum Score | GATE Minimum Score |
OPEN | 675 | 602 |
SC | 424 | 414 |
OBC-NCL | 556 | 543 |
EWS | 580 | 549 |
ST | 307 | 307 |
Category | GATE Maximum Score | GATE Minimum Score |
OPEN | 618 | 577 |
EWS | 542 | 542 |
SC | 452 | 406 |
OBC-NCL | 546 | 527 |
ST | 315 | 299 |
Category | GATE Maximum Score | GATE Minimum Score |
OPEN | 561 | 531 |
OBC-NCL | 539 | 526 |
ST | 315 | 299 |
EWS | 555 | 537 |
ST | 291 | 291 |
Category | GATE Maximum Score | GATE Minimum Score |
SC | 413 | 400 |
OPEN | 625 | 572 |
OBC-NCL | 539 | 526 |
EWS | 555 | 537 |
ST | 291 | 291 |
Category | GATE Maximum Score | GATE Minimum Score |
ST | 277 | 268 |
SC | 360 | 354 |
OBC-NCL | 514 | 496 |
EWS | 509 | 502 |
OPEN | 561 | 531 |
The authority will announce the GATE DA 2026 qualifying marks along with the result. Candidates can check the previous years' GATE DA qualifying marks for the general category given below in table form.
Year | GATE DA Qualifying Marks 2026 |
2025 | 29 |
2024 | 37.1 |
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