GATE 2027 in Faridabad: Exam City, IIT Delhi Zone and Back-up Choices

On the official exam-city page, Haryana's IIT Delhi zone entries are Faridabad and Gurugram. Faridabad is a single name, with no separate Ballabgarh, Old Faridabad or Greater Faridabad option.

The district administration describes the district as Faridabad and Ballabgarh tehsils, with the Yamuna on its eastern side and Palwal district to the south. If you live in Ballabgarh, you tick Faridabad like everyone else in the district. The admit card then names the actual centre, which need not be near your home.

GATE's general rules still apply: six cities, all from one zone; a tentative list that GATE may change, including allotting a city outside your options; and centres only in India.

Faridabad's geography makes one back-up obvious. The district notes that the Delhi-Mathura national highway and the Delhi-Mathura broad gauge railway both run north to south through the district, with stations at Faridabad, Ballabgarh and Asaoti. Mathura, at the other end of that line, is an exam city in the IIT Delhi zone, so it can sit on your form.

Not every city in that direction shares the zone. Agra and Aligarh are IIT Kanpur zone. Aligarh district even faces Faridabad across the Yamuna, according to the district page, but it cannot be combined with Faridabad. Palwal and Bulandshahr, also neighbours, have no exam city of their own.

If you are from Palwal, which has no entry, Faridabad and Mathura are both IIT Delhi zone names you can put on one form.

Most of the confusion is on the Uttar Pradesh side of Delhi. GATE files NCR's cities under two zones:

Exam city	GATE zone
Faridabad, Gurugram	IIT Delhi
New Delhi	IIT Delhi
Greater NOIDA, Mathura	IIT Delhi
NOIDA, Ghaziabad, Meerut	IIT Roorkee

NOIDA and Greater NOIDA are different entries in different zones. Faridabad pairs with Greater NOIDA; it does not pair with NOIDA. A college in Noida does not change this. If you study there but will write from home in Faridabad, build the IIT Delhi list. If you would rather write near college, the whole form has to move to the IIT Roorkee zone and Faridabad drops off it.

Ambala is the other Haryana entry and it is IIT Roorkee zone too, with Punjab, Himachal and Uttarakhand. The Gurugram page and the Delhi page set out the same split from their side.

A Faridabad candidate has four NCR names and Mathura in the same zone, so the sixth is the only real decision:

1. Faridabad
2. New Delhi
3. Greater NOIDA
4. Gurugram
5. Mathura
6. Jaipur, or another Rajasthan city such as Ajmer or Sikar

Whether Greater NOIDA or Gurugram comes first after New Delhi depends on which side of Delhi you can reach more easily from where you will stay. Mathura is the natural fifth because of the direct rail and road link. For the Rajasthan end of the zone, see the Jaipur page.

Registration has closed, so a registered candidate's six are already fixed on the form. The dates page lists the application data correction window (candidate request, with fee) as TBA.

All six exam days are weekends: 6 and 7, 13 and 14, 20 and 21 February 2027. City allotment is notified on 4 January 2027, and the admit card, with the centre address and reporting time, follows on a date still listed as TBA.

The district's travel page names three railway stations (Faridabad, Ballabgarh and Faridabad New Town), bus stations at Faridabad and Ballabgarh, and Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, 31 km away, for anyone flying home to write. Once you know the centre, work out the route from where you will sleep the night before. If GATE allots you Mathura or another back-up, go the previous day.

Writing DA and CS together? The two-paper page says the second paper's centre may differ from the first, though it stays in the same city. Take the printed admit card and the original photo ID used in your application, and follow the admit card for everything else.

Exam-city questions for Faridabad go to IIT Delhi's GATE office, Hauz Khas, New Delhi– 110 016: gateoffice@admin.iitd.ac.in, 011-26591749. Application questions go to IIT Madras at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or 044-22578200, quoting your enrolment ID.

None of GATEiit's institute pages is in Faridabad. The nearest are in Delhi, and each page explains the GATE routes for DA and CS candidates:

• IIIT-Delhi, Okhla, New Delhi
• IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi
• JNU, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi
• NSUT, Dwarka, New Delhi
• DTU, Bawana Road, Delhi
• NIT Delhi, GT Karnal Road, Delhi

In Haryana, NIT Kurukshetra has a page. Browse the rest on /institutes.

Your exam city plays no part in admission, so do not pick New Delhi in the hope that it helps with a Delhi institute.

GATEiit is a free online site with no office, centre or classes in Faridabad. Everything works from home or a college library.

Decide on the paper before anything else. GATE DA is Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; GATE CSE is Computer Science and Information Technology. Each page has the syllabus and the link to the WhatsApp group for doubts. GATE 2027 allows DA and CS as a two-paper pair if you want both.

Previous papers with solutions are on /pyq, and topic-wise question sets on /practice. For a week-by-week plan, follow the GATE DA 2027 guide or the GATE CSE 2027 guide, and use the other guides for specific topics. Since the exam falls on Saturdays and Sundays, keep those mornings for full mocks in the weeks before. The GATE 2027 hub and the exam-city overview carry the national details.