GATE 2026 Registration Begins on 25th August! IIT-Guwahati to Conduct Exams, Website Launched..

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) will be conducting the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2026 in February of 2026. IIT Guwahati has also launched a separate official website for the upcoming exam. The official GATE 2026 website is launched at the site gate2026.iitg.ac.in . In the year 2026, the GATE exam would be held in the month of February on the dates 7,8,14, and 15.

IIT Guwahati will start the application process for the GATE 2026 exam on 25th August 2025. The last date for applying for the exam would be on 25th September 2025, without any late fees, and 6th October, with the late fees.

GATE 2026 will be conducted for a total of 30 test papers. Candidates can appear in one or up to two test papers only. The two test papers will be chosen from a list of combinations given for the test. Candidates need to fill out only one application form, even if the candidates appear for two test papers. The GATE 2026 test paper will be in English and will be of a totally objective type.

The question type in the GATE 2026 will have multiple choice questions (MCQs), Numerical Answer Type (NAT), and multiple select questions (MSQs). From the MCQs, only one out of four given options in the question would be correct, and in the MSQs, one or more than four out of the four given options will be correct. While the answer for the NAT questions would be keyed in using the virtual keypad.

The National Coordination Board (NCB), Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India, has given the responsibility to the IISc and the IITs to conduct the GATE 2026. A valid GATE score would be used to admit the students in the direct doctoral programmes and the master’s programmes of engineering, science, technology, architecture, commerce, arts, or humanities, and the doctoral programmes of the relevant branches of engineering, architecture, science and technology, commerce, arts or humanities in all the institutes supported by the Government agencies and the MoE.

GATE 2025 was conducted from 1st February to 16th February, and the result was declared on 19th March 2025. Last year, GATE was administered by IIT Roorkee.