Hi,

Your scholarship eligibility depends on whether your GATE 2026 score meets the General category qualifying cutoff. If your category could not be changed after the correction window, then you are usually treated as a General category candidate during admission and scholarship processing.

Generally:
• If your score is equal

Hi,

With a GATE score of 426, you do have a chance of getting MTech Data Science in some NITs , especially through later counselling rounds or in comparatively less competitive NITs. For top NITs, though, Data Science seats can still be quite competitive since it is a popular specialisation.

Hello Student,

Getting a seat in Mining Engineering in MBM Jodhpur with 67th percentile as an OBC candidate might be difficult, as the cut off goes around 75-80th percentile.

What you can do is to go for spot rounds or REAP's last round, provided the seats remain vacant.

Hello Bhaskar

You can check you Admission chances from the link given below:

https://engineering.careers360.com/gate-college-predictor

Hope it helps.

Hello, yes, you can apply for some PSU jobs through your GATE EEE score even if you are studying ECE, but it depends on the eligibility criteria of each PSU recruitment. Some PSUs allow both ECE and EEE candidates for certain posts.

You can check the latest PSU recruitment updates

Check the syllabus first - https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-data-science-and-ai-syllabus . Understand where you stand with your knowledge. Check out any past question papers for this and see the question types.

Start preparing on those lines, take up free mock tests and series. There are plenty available on reddit and telegram and other social

Hello, you can check the GATE college prediction based on your rank and score here: GATE 2026 College Predictor