GATE 2027 in Jammu: Jammu - Samba Exam City, IIT Delhi Zone and Institutes

The GATE 2027 exam-city page has two names under Jammu and Kashmir: "Jammu - Samba" and "Srinagar". The list has no separate "Jammu" entry, so pick "Jammu - Samba" exactly as written. Samba is a separate district of the Union Territory, and GATE lists the two together as one exam city. The list does not say which centres fall on which side, so wait for your admit card before assuming a centre in Jammu city itself.

Ladakh has one entry, "Leh". All three are in the IIT Delhi zone.

The rule on the form: you choose six cities, and all six must be from one zone. The list is tentative. GATE can add or remove a city, and may allot you one outside your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Pathankot is filed under Punjab, and that is where the form catches people, especially anyone studying at a college in Punjab or Himachal. Every Punjab and Himachal Pradesh city on the list is in the IIT Roorkee zone, not the IIT Delhi zone.

Cities on the list	Zone
Jammu - Samba, Srinagar, Leh	IIT Delhi
New Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Greater NOIDA, Mathura	IIT Delhi
Jaipur, Ajmer, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur and the rest of Rajasthan	IIT Delhi
Pathankot, Amritsar, Jalandhar-Phagwara, Ludhiana, Mohali-Chandigarh, Patiala, Bathinda	IIT Roorkee
Kangra, Palampur, Una, Hamirpur, Mandi, Kullu, Shimla-Solan	IIT Roorkee
Ambala, NOIDA, Ghaziabad, Meerut	IIT Roorkee

So Jammu - Samba with Pathankot is not allowed, and neither is Jammu - Samba with Mohali-Chandigarh. Note also that NOIDA is IIT Roorkee zone while Greater NOIDA is IIT Delhi zone.

If you study at a college in Punjab or Himachal, decide early which side you will sit the exam on. Either build an IIT Delhi-zone list around home, or an IIT Roorkee-zone list around your college. The Chandigarh page covers the second option.

Outside Jammu - Samba itself, your same-zone options are Srinagar, Leh, the Delhi NCR group and Rajasthan. One order that suits a student living in Jammu:

1. Jammu - Samba
2. Srinagar
3. New Delhi
4. Gurugram
5. Faridabad
6. Greater NOIDA

If you are from the Kashmir valley and study in Jammu, you may want Srinagar first. If you will be at a Delhi hostel or internship in February, move New Delhi up; the Delhi page explains the NCR side. Students from Ladakh have Leh, also in this zone. Jaipur and the other Rajasthan cities are in the zone too, which helps only if you have family there.

Reorder by where you could sleep the night before the paper, not by which city sounds bigger.

The coordinating institute for your zone is IIT Delhi: Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, gateoffice@admin.iitd.ac.in, phone 011-26591749. Write from your registered email and include your enrolment ID.

For the application portal or the papers themselves, the organising institute is IIT Madras: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Registration has closed. The paid data-correction window is still TBA on the official dates page, so do not count on changing cities later. The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027, the admit card date is TBA, and results are on 19 March 2027.

The admit card gives the centre address and reporting time. Since the listing covers Jammu and Samba together, look up your centre the day the card comes out and plan the trip from where you will stay.

For students coming from elsewhere, the Jammu district administration's how-to-reach page lists the airport about 8 km south-west of the city along Ranbir Singh Pura Road, Jammu Tawi railway station, and daily buses from Jammu to most towns of north India. If you are allotted Srinagar, Leh or a Delhi NCR city instead, travel the day before.

GATE 2027 lets you write DA and CS together. If you do, the two-paper rules say your second paper's centre may differ from the first, but will be in the same city. Check both entries on the card.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form, and whatever else the admit card lists. Its instructions are final.

Two institutes in the UT have GATEiit pages:

• IIT Jammu, at Jagti, PO Nagrota, Jammu.
• NIT Srinagar, at Hazratbal, Srinagar.

Each page sets out the institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates. Across the border, in the other zone, IIT Ropar, NIT Jalandhar, PEC Chandigarh, IIT Mandi and NIT Hamirpur have pages too, as does IIT Delhi. The full list is on /institutes.

The zone rule is only about where you sit the paper. You can apply to any of these institutes whatever your exam city, and writing GATE in Jammu gives no advantage at IIT Jammu.

GATEiit is free and online only. It has no centre or office in Jammu, or anywhere else.

Start with your paper's 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 that paper's WhatsApp group.

Then work through past papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide set out a plan, and /guides has more. Every exam day is a Saturday or Sunday, so take full mocks on weekend mornings. The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview fill in the rest.