Hi afreen previous year cutoff was the 19.04 for the mathematics.

However you can check the link given below to know the or to get the idea of previous year cutoff

https://studyabroad.careers360.com/jam-2017-opening-closing-rank

Dear Dhruv,

In order to eligible for IITs you should have 75% marks in your boards exam or you should be in top 20 percentile in general category. For SC/ST you should have 65% marks.

Good luck!!

Although the official cut-off marks for GATE2018 will be declared by IIT in mid-March 2018, according to previous year cut-offs and toughness of paper this year following are the predictions for the cut-off of Mechanical Engineering Branch:

• General - 30 to 32
• OBC - 27 to 29
• SC/ST/PWD - 18

Although the official cut-off marks for GATE2018 will be declared by IIT in mid-March 2018, according to previous year cut-offs and toughness of paper this year following are the predictions for the cut-off:

Mechanical Engineering Branch:

• General - 30 to 32
• OBC - 27 to 29
• SC/ST/PWD - 18 to

Hello Gudipati..

The previous year GATE cut off-qualifying marks for electrical engineering is 25.20(general category).

And your expected GATE score will be around 500-600(out of 1000),and the previous year cut off for IIT Bombay is 510,for IIT Delhi-780,IIT BHU-647 etc...you can also check the previous year cutoff for different IITs

Please try this tool

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

Respected Sir,

This year the qualifying marks forinstrumentation branch for general in GATE 2017 is 34.2% and you have got 41.36 % in the year 2018 which is accordingly good score in GATE for instrumentation as you know you have just qualified in GATE because as you know the qualifying

Dear Atharva,

No, it is not compulsory to get into IIT's only for top automobile companies.

You can also refer below colleges which provides good placements in this field

National Institute of Technology Warangal

SRM University, Chennai

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore