hi  Aspirants ,

As per you query,

There were a data for total no of students applied for GATE Metallurgy in 2021 is :

IIT Bombay has released GATE 2021 result on March 19, and the overall pass percentage was 17.82. The scorecard of GATE 2021 will be released on March 30.

A total of 8,82,684 candidates have applied for the GATE 2021. GATE 2021 was held in 27 papers, including two new papers introduced by IIT-Bombay Humanities and Social Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering.

For further information  I have been attached a   link you can check out this link :

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/psu-recruitment-through-gate

Hope you understand.

Thank you .