GATE Score Calculator

Once the answer keys are out, work out your marks from your response sheet, then see what GATE score those marks give. It uses the official GATE 2027 marking scheme and score formula, and nothing you enter leaves this page.

1. Marks from your response sheet

Count your answers against the official answer key. Only wrong MCQs lose marks; leave out unattempted questions and wrong MSQ or NAT answers.

MCQ, MSQ or NAT, out of 30
MCQ, MSQ or NAT, out of 35
Each costs 1/3 mark
Each costs 2/3 mark

Your marks out of 100 appear here.

2. GATE score from your marks

The qualifying mark and the top performers' average are published for each paper with the results. Until then they aren't known, so try a few values to see the range.

Decides the mark you need to qualify
EC paper only. Estimate only
Normalized marks if your paper had more than one session
General category, for your paper
For your paper

Your GATE score appears here.

How it works

  • The official GATE 2027 pattern (brochure section 7.3): “Every test paper has 65 questions carrying a total of 100 marks, out of which 10 questions carrying a total of 15 marks will be on General Aptitude (GA)”, and “The GA section includes 5 questions carrying 1 mark each and 5 questions carrying 2 marks each.” For EC the other 85 marks are the subject. The brochure doesn't give the subject split in words, but 55 questions worth 85 marks means 25 one-mark and 30 two-mark questions, so the paper has 30 one-mark and 35 two-mark questions in all. The official GATE 2026 EC paper has exactly that split: Q.1 to Q.5 and Q.11 to Q.35 carry 1 mark, and Q.6 to Q.10 and Q.36 to Q.65 carry 2.
  • A wrong 1-mark MCQ costs 1/3 mark and a wrong 2-mark MCQ costs 2/3 mark. MSQ and NAT answers never lose marks, and MSQs get no partial marks.
  • The score is GATE Score = 350 + 550 × (M − Mq) ÷ (Mt − Mq). M is your marks, Mq the general-category qualifying mark for your paper, and Mt the average of the top performers in it. So the qualifying mark scores 350 and the top average scores 900.
  • For a paper held in more than one session, M is your normalized marks, not your raw marks.
  • Your category changes the mark you need to qualify, not the score. Brochure section 8.1: “Qualifying marks for OBC-NCL/EWS categories = (9/10) × Qualifying marks for GENERAL category; Qualifying marks for SC/ST/PwD categories = (2/3) × Qualifying marks for GENERAL category”. The score always uses the general Mq.

The calculator never predicts the qualifying mark, the top average or your rank. Before results they aren't known. If you want a rough idea, you can fill in the EC paper's values from a past year, taken only from the organising institute's official report, with the year and a link. They are an estimate only: every year's values are different.

The formulas in detail

Source: the GATE 2027 information brochure (sections 7.3 and 8.1, pages 23, 24 and 28), IIT Madras. Past EC values: the official GATE 2024, 2025 and 2026 reports from IISc Bengaluru, IIT Roorkee and IIT Guwahati, linked when you choose a year. Last verified Wednesday, 7 October 2026. Studyloaf is not affiliated with IIT Madras or any GATE organising institute.