GATE Cut-off is a highly crucial aspect that the candidates or GATE aspirants need to know if they wish to crack the GATE exams. These Cut-offs are the requisite scores for the candidates to qualify in the exams. In this article below, an attempt is being made to establish the crucial role of GATE cut-offs for admissions to the required educational institution or recruitment to a particular job in the PSU. 

Any GATE aspirant should be aware that if they appear for the GATE exams, they will have to aim for at least the cut-offs. Those who make the GATE cut-off are eligible to proceed with the GATE counselling and admissions process to PG programs like M. Tech / M.E / PhD in top Indian colleges. However, the educational institutions are given the right to decide their own admissions cut-off for each course, as they desire. 

In the meantime, candidates can browse below in this article to know the steps on how to check for the cut-offs, the pointers that define the cut-offs or even the difference between the qualifying and the admissions cut-off. 

GATE Cut-off Analysis – Role it Plays in Admissions

As we have already tried to establish the significance of GATE scores, here let us browse through to see the steps to check the GATE cut-offs. For reference, candidates can check these steps mentioned here. Candidates must first get on the official website and click on the “GATE Cut-off 2021 PDF” link to open and download it. 

In the meantime, some factors determine the GATE cut-offs, and we have mentioned those in a list below: 

• The complexity or the difficulty level of the GATE exam paper.
• The total number of applicants.
• The total number of seats that are available at the institutes.

 

Also, we have analysed here the difference between the GATE qualifying cut-offs and the admissions cut-offs. To begin with, qualifying cut-offs are the minimum scores that an applicant has to get to qualify for the exam. This, meanwhile, could vary depending on the categories of students. Alternatively, the GATE admissions cut-off is the minimum score needed to get admission, and the institute determines it. While the qualifying cut-off is announced by the exam conducting institute, the admissions cut-off is revealed by the Educational Institute at the time of admissions. 

Here, in this table below, we have given the parameters used cut-off to decide the qualifying and admissions cut-offs. 

PARTICULARS	QUALIFYING CUT-OFFS	ADMISSIONS CUT-OFFS
Parameters that decide cut-offs	Performance of the candidate, category, previous cut-off trends	Number of seats, category of applicants, forms received.

 

Any candidate who has exceeded these GATE cut-offs will find it easier to get into NITs,IITs and CFTIs based on their scores. For this reason, candidates have to try hard to crack the exams conducted by GATE. So, based on their performance in the exams, and the admissions’ procedure that follows at a particular institute, candidates can qualify for their post-graduate programmes as preferred. 

GATE exams with varied difficulty levels are held in multiple sessions. Candidates can try hard to score well in these. A GATE Scorecard is provided for only those candidates who have scored equal to or more than the applicable qualifying cut-offs for the GATE exams of the relevant academic year.