GATE 2025 Exam Registration From 24 August to 26 September 2024, Application Dates Announced
GATE 2025 Exam Application submission will be commencing from 24 August 2024 at ‘https://gate2025.iitr.ac.in/’
The last date to submit application for GATE 2025 Exam is 26 September 2024.
Schedule for the registration has been announced on the official website of GATE 2025 Exam.
The test will be conducted on February on 1, 2, 15 and 16, 2025. The dates for the exam have been announced.
The official website in connection with GATE 2025 Exam was launched on 1 July 2025. The exam will be a computer based test, which means it will be held online.
The dates for GATE 2025 Exam registration is mentioned in the table format below for the sake of the students:
| Activity | Day | Date* |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Date of GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS) | Saturday | 24 August 2024 |
| Closing Date of REGULAR online registration/ application process (Without Late Fee) | Thursday | 26 September 2024 |
| Closing Date of EXTENDED online registration/ application process (With Late Fee) | Monday | 7 October 2024 |
| GATE 2025 Examinations | Saturday Sunday Saturday Sunday |
1 February 2025 2 February 2025 15 February 2025 16 February 2025 |
*All dates are liable to change
About the exam
The full name of the exam is Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, its popularly known to all as GATE. It is a national level exam conducted once a year.
GATE 2025 Exam is meant to be conducted for the year 2025. The GATE score obtained by the candidates will remain valid for a period of three years from the date of announcement of results.
GATE score is also used by some colleges and institutions for admission to postgraduate programs. Several Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) have also been using GATE score for recruitment.
The exam is conducted by IITs and IISc Bangalore on behalf of National Coordination Board – GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education of Government of India.
Who can take up GATE 2025 Exam registration?
Candidates who have completed graduation in the relevant discipline from a recognized educational institution can take up GATE 2025 Exam registration.
The bachelors degree can be from the field of Engineering, Technology, Science, Architecture/and Humanities.
Even those who have appeared for their qualifying degree exam and are waiting for the results or are about to appear for the final exams can also take up GATE 2025 Exam registration.
However, these people have to pass the exam and provide a proof for it by the time the admission process begins. More details are provided below:
How to take up GATE 2025 Exam registration?
The process to take up GATE 2025 Exam registration is online and candidates can submit applications at the official website that is reachable with the URL ‘https://gate2025.iitr.ac.in/’
1. The URL mentioned above must be typed into the browser and submitted to allow the webpage to download.
2. Once the webpage is ready, candidates can click the information brochure to know about the exam.
3. After knowing about the exam, candidates can click the link for registration. Clicking this link will open another webpage with another URL
4. When the webpage with another URL opens, candidates can click the link for registration and register to create an account with username and password.
5. Post account creation, candidates can login and start applying for GATE 2025 Exam.
$ High quality image of candidate’s photograph conforming to the requirements specified
$ High quality image of candidate’s signature conforming to the requirements specified
$ Scanned copy of Category (SC/ST) certificate in pdf format
$ Scanned copy of PwD Certificate in pdf format
$ Scanned copy of Certificate of Dyslexia (if applicable) in pdf format
$ Scanned copy of any of the valid photo Identity document: Aadhar-UID (preferable), Passport, PAN Card, Voter ID and
$ Driving License (should have Name, Date of birth of the candidate and unique Photo ID number. This must be carried in original to the examination hall for verification).
How to download the admit card?
The process to download admit card for GATE 2025 exam is online. Candidates have to visit the official website to download the hall ticket with the help of URL ‘https://gate2025.iitr.ac.in/’
1. The URL mentioned above has to be typed into the browser and submitted to allow the website to download.
2. Once the website is ready, candidates have to click the link to download the hall ticket.
3. After clicking the link, they can enter their roll number/application number and other required details and submit them to obtain the hall ticket.
Point to remember
Candidates who have successfully completed their GATE 2025 exam registration will alone be able to download the admit card. The link to download hall ticket will be made active at the appropriate time, a few days before the commencement of the exam.
The questions will be asked in two sections, while one section has questions related to General Aptitude which may be common to all candidates.
Next section has questions from the subject chosen by candidates while taking up GATE 2025 exam registration. More details are present below:
Exam Centers
The test centres will be located across the country. Candidates have to choose the centres for writing the exam while taking up GATE 2025 exam registration.
Candidates have to choose exam centres carefully, as chances to alter them at a later stage may not be provided.
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They should also remember, that the test centres provided in the list below are tentative, more centres for the exam could be added as time moves ahead if there is a requirement:
| GATE Office, IISc, Bengaluru – 560 012 |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns Andhra Pradesh: Ananthapuramu, Kurnool Kerala: Angamaly, Kannur, Kasaragod, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta, Payyanur, Thrissur, Vatakara, Wayanad Karnataka: Bagalkot, Ballari (Bellary), Belagavi (Belgaum), Bengaluru North, Bengaluru South, Bidar, Chikkballapur, Chikkamagaluru, Davanagere, Hassan, Hubballi (Hubli)/Dharwad, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Kolar, Mandya , Mangaluru, Manipal-Udupi, Mysuru (Mysore), Shivamogga (Shimoga), Tumakuru Telangana: Hyderabad, Medak, Nalgonda Andaman and Nicobar: Port Blair |
| GATE Office, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – 400 076 |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns Gujarat: Ahmedabad, Anand, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Mehsana, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Vapi Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Akola, Amravati, Aurangabad, Baramati, Chandrapur, Dhule, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Latur, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nanded, Nashik, Navi-Mumbai-Thane, Panvel-Raigad, Pune, Ratnagiri, Sangamner-Loni-Shirdi, Sangli, Satara, Solapur, Vasai-Palghar, Wardha, Yavatmal Goa: Goa |
| GATE Office, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi – 110 016 |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns Haryana: Faridabad, Gurugram, Hisar Jammu and Kashmir: Jammu-Samba, Srinagar Ladakh: Leh Madhya Pradesh: Indore, Ujjain New Delhi: New Delhi Rajasthan: Ajmer, Alwar, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Sikar, Udaipur Uttar Pradesh: Greater NOIDA, Mathura |
| GATE Office, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati – 781 039 |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns Arunachal Pradesh: Itanagar Assam: Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Silchar, Tezpur Bihar: Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Purnea Jharkhand: Bokaro Steel City, Dhanbad Manipur: Imphal Meghalaya: Shillong Mizoram: Aizawl Nagaland: Dimapur, Kohima Sikkim: Gangtok Tripura: Agartala West Bengal: Asansol, Durgapur, Burdwan, Kalyani, Siliguri |
| GATE Office, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur – 208 016 |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Sagar, Satna Uttar Pradesh: Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Jhansi , Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi |
| GATE Office, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur – 721 302 |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns Andhra Pradesh: Eluru, Kakinada-Surampalem, Rajamahendravaram (Rajahmundry), Srikakulam, Tadepalligudem, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram Chhattisgarh: Bhilai, Bilaspur, Raipur Jharkhand: Hazaribag, Jamshedpur, Ranchi Odisha: Balasore, Bhubaneswar, Brahmapur, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Kakatpur (Puri), Rourkela, Sambalpur West Bengal: Bankura, Berhampur-Murshidabad, Hooghly, Howrah, Kharagpur-Midnapur, Kolaghat, Kolkata, Suri (Birbhum) |
| GATE Office, IIT Madras, Chennai – 600 036 |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns Andhra Pradesh: Chirala, Chittoor, Guntur, Kadapa, Nellore, Ongole, Tirupati Kerala: Alappuzha, Aluva-Ernakulam, Attingal, Chengannur, Kanjirapally, Kollam, Kothamangalam , Kottayam, Muvattupuzha, Thiruvananthapuram Pondicherry: Puducherry Tamilnadu: Chennai South, Chennai West, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Dindigul, Kanyakumari-Nagercoil, Madurai, Namakkal, Ramanathapuram, Salem, Thanjavur, Theni, Thoothukudi, Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Vellore, Virudhunagar Telangana: Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Kodad, Kothagudem, Nizamabad, Suryapet, Warangal |
| GATE Office, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee – 247 667 |
Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns Haryana: Ambala, Kurukshetra Himachal Pradesh: Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, Shimla-Solan Punjab: Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mohali-Chandigarh, Patiala, Pathankot Uttar Pradesh: Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, NOIDA, Saharanpur Uttarakhand: Dehradun, Haldwani, Roorkee |
This is a tentative list of examination cities. Any changes will be updated on the website.
Choice of Examination City: A candidate can choose three cities from the list given above. All the three choices must be from the same GATE 2025 exam zone. GATE 2025 reserves the right to add a new city or remove an existing one, and allot a city that may not be from any of the choices selected by the candidate.
Point to remember
GATE 2025 exam registration is just one part of the whole effort to gain admission into postgraduate courses. There is a lot of things that happen after GATE 2025 exam registration.
Applicants have to pass the exam with the required qualifying marks which are also known as cutoff marks, these are the minimum marks the candidates have to score in the exam to be eligible for the next phase of admission.
Score of the candidates, have to either greater than cutoff or equal to it to be eligible for the next stage of the process. Also, students must ensure there is no room left for errors while taking up GATE 2025 exam registration.
Committing mistakes while taking up GATE 2025 registration may later on lead to rejections, so the applicants have to exert caution while filling the application forms.
They should also have the required documents with them when they attend admission process, the documents that have been uploaded while taking up GATE 2025 exam registration must be carried along with them when the admission process is on.
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CBSE 12th Result 2026 declared today, May 13! Check your scorecard on DigiLocker, UMANG & cbseresults.nic.in. Learn symbols
The wait is finally over. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared the CBSE Class 12 Result 2026 today, May 13, 2026 — and millions of students across India are rushing to check their scorecards right now.
Whether you scored brilliantly, are anxious about a borderline result, or are trying to understand what those cryptic symbols on your marksheet mean — this guide covers everything you need to know in one place. From step-by-step instructions for checking your result to understanding pass criteria, symbols, grace marks, compartment dates, and what to do next, we’ve got you covered.
CBSE 12th Result 2026 — Quick Overview
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Board | Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) |
| Exam | Senior School Certificate Examination (Class XII) |
| Result Date | May 13, 2026 |
| Result Time | ~4:00 PM onwards |
| Total Students Appeared | ~18.59 lakh |
| Overall Pass Percentage | 85.20% |
| Official Website | results.cbse.nic.in / cbse.gov.in |
| Alternate Platforms | DigiLocker, UMANG App, IVRS |
| Highest Pass Region | Trivandrum (95.62%) |
Official Websites to Check Your Result
CBSE provides multiple platforms to check results, especially given the massive server traffic during result declaration. Here are all the official links:
- cbseresults.nic.in — Primary results portal
- results.cbse.nic.in — Alternate results portal
- cbse.gov.in — CBSE official website
- digilocker.gov.in — For official digital marksheet
- UMANG App — Mobile-based access
- IVRS — Telephone-based result (for network issues)
Pro Tip: If the main website is down due to heavy traffic, go directly to DigiLocker or the UMANG app — they handle traffic better and give you an officially valid digital marksheet.
Step-by-Step Guide: How to Check CBSE 12th Result 2026 {#how-to-check}
Checking your result is straightforward. Keep your admit card handy before you begin — you’ll need it for your credentials.
Steps to check on cbseresults.nic.in:
- Visit cbseresults.nic.in or results.cbse.nic.in
- Click on “Senior School Certificate Examination (Class XII) Results 2026”
- Enter your Roll Number
- Enter your School Number
- Enter your Admit Card ID
- Enter the Security Pin (shown on screen)
- Click “Submit”
- Your result will appear — download and save a PDF copy
Credentials You Need:
- Roll Number (on your admit card)
- School Number (on your admit card)
- Admit Card ID (on your admit card)
- Date of Birth (may be required on some platforms)
How to Download Your Marksheet on DigiLocker
DigiLocker provides an official, government-valid digital marksheet — you can use it directly for college admissions without waiting for the physical copy.
Steps:
- Go to digilocker.gov.in or open the DigiLocker app
- Log in or create a free account using your Aadhaar-linked mobile number
- Search for “CBSE” under Issued Documents
- Click on “CBSE Class 12 Marksheet 2026”
- Enter your roll number and the year (2026)
- Click “Get Document”
- Your marksheet will appear — download or share it directly
The digital marksheet from DigiLocker is legally equivalent to the original and is accepted by most universities and colleges for the admission process.
How to Check via UMANG App
The UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) app is another reliable option when official websites are slow.
Steps:
- Download the UMANG app from the Play Store or App Store
- Search for “CBSE” in the services section
- Select “Class 12 Result”
- Enter your roll number and other required details
- Submit to view your result
Understanding Symbols on Your CBSE Marksheet
This is one of the most confusing parts for students. Here’s a clear breakdown of every symbol and abbreviation you’ll see on your CBSE Class 12 marksheet:
| Symbol / Abbreviation | Full Form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| P | Pass | Passed in the subject |
| F | Fail | Failed in the subject |
| A | Absent | Did not appear for the exam |
| UFM | Unfair Means | Used unfair means during the exam |
| C | Compartment | Failed in 1–2 subjects; eligible for compartment exam |
| E | Essential Repeat | Failed in 3+ subjects; must repeat the year |
| XX | Withheld | Result withheld due to pending dues or investigation |
| R | Result Later | Result will be announced later |
| SP | School Pass | Passed based on school-based assessment only |
| Q | Qualified | Qualified for next class |
| N | Not Graded | Marks not available for administrative reason |
Grade Breakdown (CBSE Grading System)
| Marks Range | Grade | Grade Point |
|---|---|---|
| 91–100 | A1 | 10.0 |
| 81–90 | A2 | 9.0 |
| 71–80 | B1 | 8.0 |
| 61–70 | B2 | 7.0 |
| 51–60 | C1 | 6.0 |
| 41–50 | C2 | 5.0 |
| 33–40 | D | 4.0 |
| 21–32 | E1 | — (Fail) |
| 0–20 | E2 | — (Fail) |
Note: CBSE uses a 10-point grading scale for the final marksheet, but universities often ask for percentage equivalents during admissions. The standard CBSE formula is: Percentage = (CGPA × 9.5).
Pass Eligibility & Minimum Marks Required
To pass the CBSE Class 12 board exam 2026, students must meet the following criteria:
- Minimum marks in each subject: 33% (in both theory and practical separately)
- For subjects with practicals: 33% in theory portion AND 33% in practical/internal assessment portion — both are mandatory
- Overall aggregate: 33% across all subjects
This criterion remains unchanged in 2026.
How Many Subjects Are Considered for the Pass Certificate?
CBSE considers 5 main subjects for passing. If a student has taken an additional sixth subject, it may replace the lowest-scoring compulsory subject — which can actually boost your percentage if you performed well in it. Ask your school about this option.
CBSE 2026 Pass Percentage & Key Statistics
Here are the major highlights of CBSE Class 12 Result 2026:
- Overall Pass Percentage: 85.20%
- Girls Pass Percentage: 88.86%
- Boys Pass Percentage: 82.13%
- Gender gap: Girls outperformed boys by 6.73%
- Highest Pass Region: Trivandrum at 95.62%
- Total Students Appeared: ~18.59 lakh (approx. 10.27 lakh boys, 8.31 lakh girls)
- Exam Duration: February 17 to April 10, 2026
- Total Exam Centres: 7,574 across India
Girls have consistently outperformed boys in CBSE Class 12 exams, and 2026 continues that trend with a notable 6.73% gap in pass percentage.
What is On-Screen Marking (OSM)?
A major change in evaluation this year was the expanded use of On-Screen Marking (OSM) — a system where answer sheets are scanned and checked digitally by examiners on computer screens rather than physically.
Benefits of OSM:
- Reduces human error in marking
- Faster and more efficient moderation
- Better audit trail for re-evaluation
- Reduces chances of answer sheet getting lost
CBSE has been gradually rolling out OSM since 2024 and significantly expanded it in 2026. While it slightly affected the result timeline during moderation, it marks a positive step toward transparent and accurate evaluation.
Re-evaluation & Verification of Marks
Not satisfied with your score? CBSE offers two options:
Option 1: Verification of Marks
- CBSE checks if all questions were evaluated and marks totalled correctly
- This does not involve re-checking the answers
- Application is done online on the CBSE website after the result
- A small fee applies per subject
Option 2: Photocopy of Answer Sheet
- Students can request a photocopy of their evaluated answer sheet
- After reviewing it, they can apply for re-evaluation if they find a genuine discrepancy
- Re-evaluation timelines are usually announced 1–2 weeks after results
Check the official CBSE website for exact fees and deadlines once they are announced.
Important Dates After the Result
| Event | Expected Timeline |
|---|---|
| CBSE 12th Result 2026 | May 13, 2026 (Declared) |
| Original Marksheet Distribution | Via schools (within weeks) |
| Mark Verification Application | ~2 weeks after result |
| Compartment Exam Registration | June 2026 (approx.) |
| Compartment Exam | July 2026 (approx.) |
| Compartment Result | August 2026 (approx.) |
| College Admission Season | June–September 2026 |
Keep checking the cbse.gov.in official website for exact notification dates.
Conclusion
The CBSE Class 12 Result 2026 is a milestone that every student and parent has been waiting anxiously for. Whether the result brought joy, relief, or disappointment — what matters most is what you do next.
If you passed, congratulations! Begin your college research early and keep your DigiLocker marksheet ready for applications. If you’re placed in compartment, remember it’s a second chance that thousands of students have used successfully to move forward. And if things didn’t go as planned, CBSE’s re-evaluation process exists for a reason — use it if you genuinely feel your paper was not assessed correctly.
Stay calm, act fast, and make your next move count.
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