The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay or IIT Bombay has commenced the application process for the GATE 2021 session. The application form is available in the online mode on the official website of the IIT GATE at gate.iitb.ac.in. The application process has been commenced 2 days prior to the date notified in the Information Brochure. All eligible and interested candidates can fill the application form upto September 30. While the application window will also be opened till October 07 by paying late fees charges.

The GATE 2021 entrance examination has been scheduled to be conducted over February 5-7 and February 12-13, 2021. The admit card for the entrance exam will be issued to all the registered candidates on January 8. This year,  the Institute has announced the various changes in the pattern, exam cities, eligibility criteria and subject. Candidates can check the Important Dates and details here.

GATE 2021 - Important Dates
Activity Day Date
GATE online registration process Start Date Monday 14th September 2020
Last date for the online registration process Wednesday 30th September 2020
Last date for online registration with late fee Wednesday 7th October 2020
Last Date for change of category, paper and examination city Friday 13th November 2020
Admit Card release date Friday 8th January 2021
GATE 2021 Entrance Examination Date & Time
Forenoon:  9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon (Tentative)
Afternoon: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM (Tentative)		 Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

 

 5th February 2021
6th February 2021
7th February 2021
12th February 2021
13th February 2021
14th February 2021

 
Result announcement date Monday 22nd March 2021
 
GATE 2021: Exam Pattern

As per the revised exam pattern, the candidates will also have to answer Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) in GATE 2021. Previously the candidates only used to answer Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Numerical Answer Type Questions (NATs). Now the candidates have to answer MSQs also. The sections wise marks has also changed as given below:
  • Engineering Mathematics - 13 Marks
  • Subject Questions - 72 Marks
  • General Aptitude - 15 Marks
GATE 2021: Relaxation In Eligibility criteria

According to the new eligibility criteria, students in the third year of their undergraduate programmes will also be eligible for GATE now.
Eligibility criteria to appear for GATE-2021 is relaxed from the minimum 10+2+4 (ongoing) to minimum 10+2+3 (ongoing), enabling even those in the third year of their undergraduate studies to appear for the examination.

GATE 2021: Exam Cities

This year the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay has also added few exam cities for GATE 2021. The list of new exam centres are as follows;

- Jhansi (IIT Kanpur),
- Dhenkanal (IIT Kharagpur),
- Chandrapur (IIT Bombay), and 
- Muzzaffarnagar (IIT Roorkee)

While the Institute has removed the Pala (IIT Madras) as the exam centre for GATE 2021. There are a total of 195 exam cities in India and 5 exam cities are in abroad. 

Official Website: gate.iitb.ac.in