GATE 2027 in Gwalior: Exam City, IIT Kanpur Zone and the Mathura Trap

The official exam-city page lists "Gwalior" once, under Madhya Pradesh, in the zone coordinated by IIT Kanpur. The entry is not split by area. You tick Gwalior, and GATE allots a centre in or around the city.

Delhi often feels like the natural reference point from Gwalior, but on this list Gwalior is grouped with Uttar Pradesh, not with NCR. The IIT Kanpur zone has five Madhya Pradesh cities (Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Sagar and Satna) and nine in Uttar Pradesh: Agra, Aligarh, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Prayagraj and Varanasi.

The rules on that page are short. You pick six cities, all from one zone. The list is tentative, so GATE may add or drop a city, and it may allot a city outside your options if it has to. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Three groups of nearby cities cannot share a form with Gwalior:

City	Zone on the official list
Mathura, Greater NOIDA	IIT Delhi
Indore, Ujjain	IIT Delhi
New Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad	IIT Delhi
Jaipur, Kota	IIT Delhi
Ghaziabad, NOIDA	IIT Roorkee

Mathura is the easy one to get wrong. Agra, its neighbour in Uttar Pradesh, is IIT Kanpur zone, but Mathura is IIT Delhi zone. Indore is the other trap, for anyone whose family lives there. Indore and Ujjain are outside our zone even though they are in Madhya Pradesh.

If you will spend February in a Delhi or Noida flat, say for a job or a coaching hostel, you face a real choice. Either build an IIT Delhi-zone list around New Delhi, or build an IIT Kanpur-zone list around Gwalior and travel home. You cannot mix the two.

According to the Gwalior district administration's travel page, Jhansi is 101 km and Agra 118 km from Gwalior by road, which makes them the obvious first back-ups. One workable order:

1. Gwalior
2. Jhansi
3. Agra
4. Sagar
5. Bhopal
6. Aligarh, or Kanpur or Lucknow if you have family there

Put the cities where you can stay the night before ahead of ones that merely look close. A Bhopal cousin is worth more than a map. If Bhopal is where you study, the Bhopal page builds the same zone from the other end, and the Kanpur page covers the Uttar Pradesh side.

Write to the IIT Kanpur zone office, as listed on the official page:

• IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016: gate@iitk.ac.in, 0512-2596962, 0512-2596963

Use the email ID you registered with and quote your enrolment ID. Questions about the portal or the papers go to the organising institute, IIT Madras, at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or 044-22578200.

Registration closed with the special window on 16 October 2026. The important dates page shows the application data correction window as TBA, so do not assume your city order can still be changed until it opens. Results are due on 19 March 2027, and every date on that page is subject to change.

The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is still TBA, and the admit card is what names your centre and reporting time. Sessions fall on the weekends of 6 and 7, 13 and 14, and 20 and 21 February 2027.

Once you have the centre, find it on a map that evening and plan the route from wherever you will sleep. Do not assume it is near your college. The district travel page says autos and shared tempos run from Gwalior railway station to most parts of the city round the clock, and that the station has a pre-paid auto booth. It also notes the station falls under the Jhansi rail division, handy if you are allotted Jhansi and travel by train. If you land in Agra, Sagar or Bhopal, go the day before.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the application, and whatever else the admit card asks for. Its instructions are final. If you registered for DA and CS together, the two-paper page says your second paper may be at a different centre in the same city, so check both addresses.

The one in the city is ABV-IIITM Gwalior, on Morena Link Road, Gwalior. Elsewhere in Madhya Pradesh, GATEiit has pages for MANIT Bhopal and IIT Indore. Each page explains the GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Further out, GATEiit has pages for IIT Kanpur, which is also our zone office, IIT Delhi and IIT BHU Varanasi. The full list is on /institutes.

The exam city has no effect on admission. Writing in Gwalior does not help at IIITM, and writing in Kanpur does not help at IIT Kanpur.

GATEiit is an online site with no centre, office or classroom in Gwalior or anywhere else. The material is free.

Start on your paper page: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each has the syllabus and a link to the WhatsApp group. DA and CS are an allowed two-paper combination in GATE 2027.

Solve old papers on /pyq and topic-wise sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide set out a study plan, and /guides has the rest. All sessions are on Saturdays and Sundays, so sit your mocks on weekend mornings. The GATE 2027 page and the city overview have the national picture.