Which IIT is making the GATE 2026 paper The IIT Guwahati will be making the GATE exam paper for 2026. The authority will be responsible for setting the GATE 2026 exam paper, handling registrations, and managing the overall exam process. The GATE 2026 exam registration was concluded on October 13, 2025. Candidates had registered GATE 2026 through the official portal, gate2026.iitg.ac.in. Aspirants who fulfilled the GATE 2026 eligibility criteria have applied for the exam. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati will conduct the GATE 2026 exam on February 7, 8, 14, and 15. Read this article for details on the IIT making the 2026 GATE paper and what the previous year’s trends were.
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IIT Guwahati also determines the GATE exam centres 2026, which have been divided into 8 IIT zones across India. The GATE exam will be held in more than 200 cities.
IIT Guwahati will conduct the GATE exam for the third time in 2026; the previous GATE exam was conducted in 2010 & 2018, respectively. According to the official source, the exam toughness level is expected to be medium to hard. However, candidates can check the GATE exam pattern 2026 on this page.
IIT Guwahati conducted its second GATE exam in 2018. Here is the branch-wise cutoff as per the official records. Candidates can refer to the GATE cutoff to understand the difficulty level of the exam by analysing the qualifying marks for the branch and category-wise.
Paper with code | Category-Wise Qualifying Marks | ||
Open | OBC-NCL | SC/ST | |
Aerospace Engineering(AE) | 34.4 | 30.9 | 22.9 |
Agricultural Engineering(AG) | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
Architecture and Planning(AR) | 43.9 | 39.5 | 29.2 |
Biotechnology(BT) | 27.9 | 25.1 | 18.5 |
Civil Engineering(CE) | 26.9 | 24.2 | 17.9 |
Chemical Engineering(CH) | 37.8 | 34 | 25.1 |
Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
Chemistry(CY) | 25.4 | 22.8 | 16.9 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering (EC) | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
Electrical Engineering(EE) | 29.1 | 26.1 | 19.4 |
Ecology and Evolution(EY) | 49.3 | 44.3 | 32.8 |
Geology and Geophysics(GG) | 32.4 | 29.1 | 21.5 |
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) | 37.1 | 33.3 | 24.7 |
Mathematics(MA) | 29.4 | 26.4 | 19.5 |
Mechanical Engineering(ME) | 34.7 | 31.2 | 23.1 |
Mining Engineering(MN) | 45 | 40.5 | 30 |
Metallurgical Engineering(MT) | 40.3 | 36.2 | 26.8 |
Petroleum Engineering(PE) | 39.8 | 35.8 | 26.5 |
Physics(PH) | 29 | 26.1 | 19.3 |
Production and Industrial Engineering (PI) | 32 | 28.8 | 21.3 |
Textile Engineering and Fibre Science (TF) | 32.2 | 28.9 | 21.4 |
Engineering Sciences(XE) | 31.5 | 28.3 | 21 |
Life Sciences(XL) | 29.9 | 26.9 | 19.9 |
IIT Guwahati GATE Cutoff 2010
IIT Guwahati conducted its first GATE exam in 2010. Here is the curated list of courses and category-wise cutoff. Candidates can refer it to understand the qualifying marks trend.
Paper with code | Category-Wise Qualifying Marks | ||
Open | OBC-NCL | SC/ST/Pwd | |
Mechanical Engineering(ME) | 25.00 | 22.50 | 16.67 |
Electrical Engineering(EE) | 25.20 | 22.68 | 16.80 |
Computer Science/IT(CS) | 25.00 | 22.50 | 16.67 |
Electronics & Communication Engineering(EC) | 25.00 | 22.50 | 16.67 |
Civil Engineering(CE) | 25.01 | 22.51 | 16.67 |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
GATE 2026 will be conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, following the rotational pattern among the IITs and IISc.
Not directly. The GATE 2026 question paper is prepared collectively by a committee of professors from multiple IITs and IISc—not solely by IIT Guwahati.
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Just visit the link I am attaching below, so that it will help you to download and practice the papers, so that you can practice well and score well.
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Hello dear candidate,
You will not receive another rectification mail unless and until there is still an error in your reuploaded signature. if everything is okay your status will change to accepted on the GATE portal.
My advice is that you should keep checking your application status on the official website of GATE 2026.
Thank you.
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Visit the below website to download the previous 15 years question paper of GATE exam.
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/last-15-years-gate-papers-solutions
You'll also get the solutions from it. These question papers will help you a lot in your preparation.
All the best.
This is likely a temporary portal or validation issue, not something you did wrong. When candidates try to change category from GEN to OBC-NCL during the GATE correction window, the system checks required fields and sometimes a supporting certificate or fee is needed. If any required data or document is missing, or the server is busy, the portal can show Something went wrong, please try again. Explain to them that first they should log into the GATE portal, open the Correction tab and confirm which fields are editable and whether a payment or document upload is required for category change. Tell them to clear browser cache or try a different browser/device and retry. If the error persists, advise contacting GATE support or the zonal office with a screenshot and timing of the error so officials can check server logs.
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The GATE 2026 Agricultural Engineering (AG) paper will have a total of 100 marks. Out of this, 15 marks are for General Aptitude and 85 marks are for core Agricultural Engineering subjects.
The marks are generally distributed among major topics like Engineering Mathematics (12–13 marks), Farm Machinery (10–11), Farm Power (14–15), Soil & Water Conservation (12–13), Irrigation & Drainage (10–12), Agricultural Process Engineering (10–12), and Dairy & Food Engineering (9–10 marks).
The official qualifying marks for GATE 2026 are not yet released. However, based on previous years, the cutoff for the Agricultural Engineering paper is expected to be around 25 marks for General, 22.5 for OBC/EWS, and 16.6 for SC/ST/PwD candidates.
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