GATE 2027 in Indore: Exam City, IIT Delhi Zone and the Bhopal Trap

The official GATE 2027 exam-city page lists "Indore" once, under Madhya Pradesh, in the zone coordinated by IIT Delhi. The entry is not split by area. You pick Indore, and GATE allots you a centre in or around it; the admit card names the building.

The district administration calls Indore the largest city in Madhya Pradesh and the state's commercial capital. Plenty of us here studied in Bhopal or are working in Pune or Bengaluru, so decide first where you will actually be in February. The form follows that, and the zone follows the form.

The rules on the official page are short. You choose six cities. All six must be from the same zone. The list is tentative, so GATE may add or remove a city, and it may allot a city outside your six if it has to. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

This is the point most Indore candidates miss. Madhya Pradesh is divided between two zones on the list:

Zone (coordinating institute)	Madhya Pradesh exam cities
IIT Delhi	Indore, Ujjain
IIT Kanpur	Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Sagar, Satna

So a form that reads Indore, Ujjain, Bhopal is not possible. If you are in a Bhopal hostel and your family is in Indore, you have to pick one side. An Indore form is an IIT Delhi-zone form; a Bhopal form is an IIT Kanpur-zone form. The Bhopal page works through the other side.

The cities just south and west of us do not fit either. Dhule and Jalgaon in Maharashtra, and Ahmedabad and Vadodara in Gujarat, are all IIT Bombay zone.

One more trap if you have relatives in the NCR. Greater NOIDA is in the IIT Delhi zone with us, but NOIDA is listed separately under IIT Roorkee. They are different entries, and only Greater NOIDA can go on an Indore form.

After Indore and Ujjain, the zone gives you eight Rajasthan cities (Ajmer, Bikaner, Hanumangarh, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Sikar, Udaipur), the Delhi region (New Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Greater NOIDA, Mathura), and the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh entries. For most of us the Rajasthan cities are the realistic ones.

A list that keeps you as close as the zone allows:

1. Indore
2. Ujjain
3. Kota
4. Udaipur
5. Ajmer
6. Jaipur, or New Delhi if you will be in NCR that month

Swap the order of Kota, Udaipur and Ajmer by where you have a place to stay. What helps on the day is a bed near the centre the night before, so a friend's flat in Jaipur can be worth more than a city that looks closer on the map. The Jaipur page and the Delhi page cover the rest of this zone.

Questions about your exam city go to the IIT Delhi zone office, exactly as the official page lists it:

• IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016: gateoffice@admin.iitd.ac.in, 011-26591749

Write from the email ID you registered with and quote your enrolment ID. For the application portal or the papers themselves, the organising institute for GATE 2027 is IIT Madras (helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200).

The important dates page still shows the application data correction window (on candidate request, with a fee) as TBA. Do not plan on changing your cities until it opens. The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027, the admit card date is TBA, and results are due on 19 March 2027. The page notes that all dates are liable to change.

Indore centres can be well outside the part of the city you know, so look up the address the evening the admit card comes out. The district's how-to-reach page lists Indore Railway Station, the Sarvate Bus Stand and the city buses of Atal Indore City Transport Services Limited (AICTSL). If you are coming in from Mhow, Sanwer or Depalpur, which the district lists among its tehsils, or from another city on your list, plan to arrive the day before.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the application, and anything else the admit card names. Its instructions on what you may take in are final.

If you registered for DA and CS together, the two-paper page says your second paper's centre may be different from the first, though in the same city. Read both centres on the admit card.

The one on our doorstep is IIT Indore, on Khandwa Road at Simrol, according to the institute's website. Its GATEiit page explains the GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates. Elsewhere in the state, MANIT Bhopal has a page too.

Beyond Madhya Pradesh, people from here often look at IIT Delhi, which also runs our zone, MNIT Jaipur, IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Bombay. The full list is at /institutes.

Keep the two decisions apart. Writing GATE in Indore does nothing for an IIT Indore application, and writing in Kota does not hurt one. Pick the city for the exam day and the institute for the course.

GATEiit is online only. It has no centre, office or classroom in Indore or anywhere else, and the material is free.

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

Solve previous papers on /pyq and topic-wise sets on /practice. For a plan, read the GATE DA 2027 guide or the GATE CSE 2027 guide; /guides has the others. All six exam days are Saturdays and Sundays, so sit your mocks on weekend mornings.

The national schedule is on the GATE 2027 page, and the city overview links every other city page.