GATE 2027 in Guwahati: IIT Guwahati Zone, Exam Cities and Institutes

The GATE 2027 exam-city page lists Guwahati once, simply as "Guwahati", under Assam. Unlike Bengaluru, it is not split into North and South.

The zone is IIT Guwahati, and it is a big one. Alongside Assam it takes in all of the north-east: Naharlagun and Papum pare (Arunachal Pradesh), Imphal and Thoubal (Manipur), Shillong (Meghalaya), Aizawl (Mizoram), Dimapur-Kohima (Nagaland), Gangtok (Sikkim) and Agartala (Tripura). It also stretches west to the four Bihar cities, Dhanbad and Bokaro Steel City in Jharkhand, and five cities in West Bengal: Asansol, Burdwan, Durgapur, Kalyani and Siliguri.

The rule for the form: you choose six cities and all six must be from one zone. The list is tentative. GATE can add or drop a city, and it can allot you a city outside your six if it needs to. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

For a Guwahati student the same-zone rule is easy to live with, because the cities you would think of first are already in your zone. A sensible order, nearest first in most cases:

1. Guwahati
2. Shillong
3. Tezpur
4. Jorhat
5. Dibrugarh or Silchar
6. Dimapur-Kohima, or Siliguri if you have family in north Bengal

Change the back-ups to suit where you could stay the night before. A cousin in Silchar matters more than a line on a map. If you are from Upper Assam and only study in Guwahati, put Jorhat or Dibrugarh higher. Students from Barak Valley may want Silchar second.

Putting Guwahati first does not promise you Guwahati, and GATE may even allot a city outside your six. Treat every back-up as a place you could really reach in February.

West Bengal is split between two zones, and this is the trap for anyone studying outside Assam.

City on the list	Zone
Guwahati, Shillong, Agartala, all north-eastern cities	IIT Guwahati
Siliguri, Asansol, Durgapur, Burdwan, Kalyani	IIT Guwahati
Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, Kharagpur-Midnapur and the rest of south Bengal	IIT Kharagpur
Patna, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Purnea	IIT Guwahati

So Guwahati and Siliguri can go together, Guwahati and Kalyani can go together, and Guwahati and Kolkata cannot. If you are in a Kolkata college and plan to sit the exam there, build an IIT Kharagpur-zone list instead; the Kolkata page covers that. A Bihar student coming home to Assam, or the other way round, stays in one zone, as the Patna page explains.

Pick the zone for where you will be in February, then pick the cities.

Exam-city questions go to the zone's coordinating institute, IIT Guwahati: Guwahati 781 039, gate@iitg.ac.in, 0361-2582751. Write from your registered email and quote your enrolment ID.

Questions about the application portal or the papers go to IIT Madras, the organising institute for GATE 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Registration is over; the special window closed on 16 October 2026. The data correction window is still shown as TBA on the official dates page, so do not plan on changing cities until GATE announces it. The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027, and results on 19 March 2027.

The admit card, whose release date is still TBA, gives the exact centre and reporting time. Guwahati centres can be anywhere in or around the city, so look the centre up on a map the day the admit card comes out and work out the route from where you will sleep. Do not assume it is near your college.

If you are allotted Tezpur, Jorhat, Shillong or anywhere outside Guwahati, travel the day before.

If you write DA and CS together, which GATE 2027 allows, the centre for your second paper may be different, though in the same city. Check both on the admit card.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form, and anything else the admit card lists. Its rules on what you may bring in are final.

IIT Guwahati is on your doorstep. Its own site describes the campus as being on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, around 20 km from the heart of the city. The GATEiit page sets out its GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

In Assam, NIT Silchar is in Silchar. Its GATEiit page sets out its CCMT routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Further afield, GATEiit pages for IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, NIT Durgapur, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Patna explain their GATE routes. All are on /institutes.

Your exam city has no link to admission. Writing GATE in Guwahati does not help you at IIT Guwahati, and writing it elsewhere does not count against you.

GATEiit is an online site with no centre or office in Guwahati or anywhere else. Everything on it is free.

Start with your paper's page: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each has the syllabus and the link to that paper's WhatsApp group.

Solve past papers year by year on /pyq, then topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and GATE CSE 2027 guide give a plan, and /guides has the rest. Since all six exam days fall on weekends, sit your full mocks on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

For the national picture, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.