GATE 2021 - Important Dates
Activity |
Day |
Date |
GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS) Website Opens |
Monday |
14th September 2020 |
Closing Date of REGULAR online registration / application portal |
Wednesday |
30th September 2020 |
Extended closing date of REGULAR online registration / application portal |
Wednesday |
7th October 2020 |
End
of EXTENDED period for online registration / application |
Monday |
12th October 2020 |
Last date of intimation to Registered Candidates after Scrutiny |
Wednesday |
21st October 2020 |
Re-opening
of GOAPS Portal for Successfully Registered Candidates to change Category /
City / Exam paper |
Wednesday |
28th October 2020 |
Last Date for change of Category, City & Exam Paper |
Friday |
13th November 2020 |
Availability
of Admit Card on the Online Application Portal |
Friday |
8th January 2021 |
GATE
2021 Examination |
Friday |
5th February
2021 |
Announcement of results in the Online Application Portal |
Monday |
22nd March 2021 |
Important Note
The health
and safety of the candidates are of utmost priority. Due to current COVID-19
pandemic situation, dates mentioned here are subject to change.
In rare cases, it may be necessary to postpone the GATE 2021 examination
because of situations beyond the control of GATE committee.
All updates will be available on this website.
GATE 2021 - Tentative List of Examination Cities
Zone No. |
Zonal GATE Office |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns |
Zone-1 |
Chairperson, GATE, |
Ananthapuramu (AP), Angamaly (KL), Bagalkot (KA), Belagavi (Belgaum) (KA), Ballari (Bellary) (KA), Bengaluru South (KA), Bengaluru North (KA), Bidar (KA), Chikkamagaluru (KA), Davanagere (KA), Hasaan (KA), Hubballi (Hubli) (KA), Hyderabad (TS), Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) (KA), Kannur (KL), Kasaragod (KL), Kolar (KA), Kozhikode (KL), Kurnool (AP), Malappuram (KL), Mangaluru (KA), Manipal (KA), Mysuru (Mysore) (KA), Palakkad (KL), Payyanur (KL), Port Blair (AN), Shivamogga (Shimoga)(KA), Thrissur (KL), Tumakuru (KA), Vatakara (KL) - (30 Cities). |
Zone-2 |
Chairperson, GATE, |
Ahmedabad (GJ), Ahmednagar (MH), Amravati (MH), Anand (GJ), Aurangabad (MH), Baramati (MH), Bhavnagar (GJ), Bhuj (GJ), Chandrapur (MH), Gandhinagar (GJ), Goa (GA), Jalgaon (MH), Kolhapur (MH), Mehsana (GJ), Mumbai-Navi Mumbai-Thane (MH), Nagpur (MH), Nanded (MH), Nashik (MH), Pune (MH), Raigad (MH), Rajkot (GJ), Ratnagiri (MH), Sangli (MH), Satara (MH), Solapur (MH), Surat (GJ), Vadodara (GJ) - (27 Cities). |
Zone-3 |
Chairperson, GATE, |
Ajmer (RJ), Alwar (RJ), Bikaner (RJ), Faridabad (HR), Greater NOIDA (UP), Gurugram (HR), Hisar (HR), Indore (MP), Jaipur (RJ), Jammu-Samba (JK), Jodhpur (RJ), Kota (RJ), Mathura (UP), New Delhi (DL), Rohtak (HR), Sikar (RJ), Sonepat (HR), Srinagar (JK), Udaipur (RJ), Ujjain (MP) - (20 Cities). |
Zone-4 |
Chairperson, GATE, |
Agartala (TR), Aizawl (MZ), Asansol-Durgapur (WB), Bokaro Steel City (JH), Burdwan (WB), Dhanbad (JH), Dibrugarh (AS), Dimapur-Kohima (NL), Gangtok (SK), Guwahati (AS), Imphal (MN), Itanagar (AR), Jorhat (AS), Kalyani (WB), Muzaffarpur (BR), Patna (BR), Purnea (BR), Shillong (ML), Silchar (AS), Siliguri (WB), Tezpur (AS) - (21 Cities). |
Zone-5 |
Chairperson, GATE, |
Agra (UP), Aligarh (UP), Allahabad (UP), Bareilly (UP), Bhopal (MP), Gorakhpur (UP), Gwalior (MP), Jabalpur (MP), Jhansi (UP), Kanpur (UP), Lucknow (UP), Varanasi (UP) - (12 Cities). |
Zone-6 |
Chairperson, GATE, |
Balasore (OR), Berhampur (Odisha) (OR), Bhilai (CH), Bhubaneswar (OR), Bilaspur (CG) (CH), Cuttack (OR), Dhenkanal (OR), Eluru (AP), Hooghly (WB), Jamshedpur (JH), Kakinada (AP), Kharagpur (WB), Kolkata (WB), Raipur (CH), Rajamahendravaram (Rajahmundry) (AP), Ranchi (JH), Rourkela (OR), Sambalpur (OR), Srikakulam (AP), Tadepalligudem (AP), Vijayawada (AP), Visakhapatnam (AP), Vizianagaram (AP) - (23 Cities). |
Zone-7 |
Chairperson, GATE, |
Alappuzha (KL), Aluva-Ernakulam (KL), Attingal (KL), Chengannur (KL), Chennai South (TN), Chennai West (TN), Chirala (AP), Chittoor (AP), Coimbatore (TN), Cuddalore (TN), Dindigul (TN), Gudur (AP), Guntur (AP), Idukki (KL), Kadapa (AP), Kanjirapally (KL), Kanyakumari-Nagercoil (TN), Karimnagar (TS), Khammam (TS), Kodad (TS), Kollam (KL), Kothamangalam (KL), Kottayam (KL), Madurai (TN), Muvattupuzha (KL), Namakkal (TN), Nellore (AP), Ongole (AP), Puducherry (PY), Salem (TN), Thanjavur (TN), Thiruvananthapuram (KL), Thoothukudi (TN), Tiruchirapalli (TN), Tirunelveli (TN), Tirupati (AP), Vellore (TN), Villupuram (TN), Virudhunagar (TN), Warangal (TS) - (40 Cities). |
Zone-8 |
Chairperson, GATE, |
Ambala (HR), Amritsar (PB), Bathinda (PB), Dehradun (UK), Ghaziabad (UP), Haldwani (UK), Hamirpur-Una (HP), Jalandhar (PB), Karnal (HR), Kurukshetra (HR), Ludhiana (PB), Meerut (UP), Mohali-Chandigarh (PB), Moradabad (UP), Muzaffarnagar (UP), NOIDA (UP), Panipat (HR), Pathankot (PB), Patiala-Sangrur (PB), Roorkee (UK), Shimla-Solan (HP), Yamunanagar (HR) - (22 Cities). |
Zone-2 |
GATE International* |
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dubai [UAE], Kathmandu [Nepal], Singapore (6 International Cities). |
Note: Words in (round bracket)
denote states in India and those in [square bracket] denote foreign countries
of International cities.
*IMPORTANT - GATE International to
continue only IF the travel and other infrastructural issues normalize by
November 2020 from the present COVID-19 pandemic situation, else GATE-2021
International Centers will be "CANCELLED".
This is a tentative list of
examination cities, and any change will be updated on the website.
Choice
of Examination City: The
candidate can choose FOUR cities from the list of
examination cities given in the above table. The first, second and third
choices must be from the same GATE zone and fourth choice can be from any GATE
zone.
If a candidate chooses a
particular city (in a particular zone) as the first choice, then he/she will be
able to choose the city of second and third choice ONLY from that particular
zone. However, the fourth choice can be from any one of the listed cities in India
(i.e., no restriction on the zone for the fourth-choice city). Note that,
because of the operational constraints, the GATE Committee reserves the right
to add a new city or remove an existing one, and allot a city that may not be
from any of the choices selected by the candidate.
Details of Application Fee for GATE-2021 (Per Subject Paper)
For Examination Centres in India |
Regular Period |
During the Extended Period |
Female candidates (per paper) |
750 |
1250 |
SC / ST / PwD* category candidates (per paper) |
750 |
1250 |
All other candidates (per paper) |
1500 |
2000 |