What chances I have to get admission for M.Tech in Geotechnical Engineering? I have not given GATE exam.

For now, there are no updates regarding how many candidates have registered and appeared for GATE 2026 exam. IIT Guwahati will release candidate's stats on its official website along with minimum qualifying cutoff marks and results. Meanwhile here is the stats last 5 years of number of candidates re

The GATE normalisation process is mainly done for the papers which is conducted in multiple sessions, to ensure fairness across different difficulty level. The GATE normalisation process uses the formula based on mean and standard deviation of marks from all sessions. 

The normalisation process

Considering the past year's trends and experts analysis, GATE CSE, ECE, and EE papers are considered as the toughest papers in GATE exam. Here's why -

• Complex technical concepts and fundamentals

• Heavy mathematics

• Branch popularity and number of registered candidates are more.

No, GATE official question paper is not released yet. The question paper for respective subjects will be made available along with answer key and GATE 2026 response sheet. The expected release date is last week of February.

No, it is not compulsory to attempt all questions asked in GATE question paper. Since there is negative marking for incorrect answers, students are advised to answer those questions which they are confident of.