GATE 2027 in Jodhpur: IIT Delhi Zone, Rajasthan Back-ups and Institutes

The official exam-city page lists Jodhpur under Rajasthan, in the zone coordinated by IIT Delhi. It is one entry for the whole city. You choose Jodhpur on the form, GATE picks the centre, and the address appears on your admit card.

IIT Delhi being our zone office does not mean anyone from Jodhpur writes in Delhi. It decides two things: which cities you may pair with Jodhpur, and which office answers your exam-city questions.

Keep in mind that the list is tentative. GATE says it may add or remove a city, and may allot a city outside your six choices. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

All six choices on a GATE form must be from one zone. For us, that zone has these cities and nothing else:

State or territory	Cities in the IIT Delhi zone
Rajasthan	Ajmer, Bikaner, Hanumangarh, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Sikar, Udaipur
New Delhi	New Delhi
Haryana	Faridabad, Gurugram
Uttar Pradesh	Greater NOIDA, Mathura
Madhya Pradesh	Indore, Ujjain
Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu - Samba, Srinagar
Ladakh	Leh

Rajasthan is whole. No Rajasthan city sits in another zone, so a list made only of Rajasthan cities can never break the rule. The risk comes only when you add a city from outside the state.

Put Jodhpur first. For the other five, think about where you could reach in time on an exam morning, or where you would have a place to stay the night before. One list for someone living in Jodhpur:

1. Jodhpur
2. Ajmer
3. Udaipur
4. Bikaner
5. Jaipur
6. Kota or Sikar

Change the order to fit your February. If you are on an internship in Jaipur, start there. If you will be working in Gurugram or New Delhi, those can lead, with Jodhpur lower down; they are in our zone, so the list stays valid. A student from Hanumangarh studying in Jodhpur can keep Hanumangarh in the list as a home option.

Registration has closed, so if you have registered, your six cities are already on the form. The official dates page shows the application data correction window, on candidate request with a fee, as TBA.

Rajasthan touches several states whose cities are in different zones. None of the following can share a form with Jodhpur:

• Gujarat: Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Vadodara are IIT Bombay zone.
• Punjab and Haryana: Bathinda and Ambala are IIT Roorkee zone.
• Uttar Pradesh: Agra and Aligarh are IIT Kanpur zone; NOIDA and Ghaziabad are IIT Roorkee zone.
• Madhya Pradesh: Gwalior and Bhopal are IIT Kanpur zone.

Three pairs look alike but split. Mathura is ours and Agra is not. Indore and Ujjain are ours and Gwalior and Bhopal are not. Greater NOIDA is ours and NOIDA is not. If you study in Gujarat and plan to write there, build a full IIT Bombay-zone list and leave Jodhpur off. The Ahmedabad page covers that side, and the Delhi NCR page explains the NCR split.

Questions about the Jodhpur exam city go to the GATE office at IIT Delhi: gateoffice@admin.iitd.ac.in or 011-26591749 (Hauz Khas, New Delhi– 110 016). Questions about your application go to the organising institute, IIT Madras, at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or 044-22578200. Use your registered email ID and quote your enrolment ID.

The exam days are 6 and 7 February, 13 and 14 February, and 20 and 21 February 2027, all Saturdays and Sundays. The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027; the admit card date is TBA; results are due on 19 March 2027.

Once you have the admit card, look up the centre and plan the route from where you will sleep the night before. If GATE allots you Bikaner, Udaipur or another back-up, travel the day before. Writing two papers? The official two-paper page says the second centre may be different, though in the same city, so check both addresses. Take the printed admit card and the original photo ID you used in the application, and follow the admit card's list of permitted items.

IIT Jodhpur is our own institute. Its site gives the address as N.H. 62, Nagaur Road, Karwar, Jodhpur. Elsewhere in the state, MNIT Jaipur is on Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg in Jaipur. Each GATEiit page explains that institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Beyond Rajasthan, the pages for IIT Delhi, IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Indore are worth a look, and /institutes has the full list.

The exam city plays no part in admission. Writing in Jodhpur does not help with IIT Jodhpur, and writing in Udaipur does not hurt you anywhere.

GATEiit is online only. It has no centre, office or classroom in Jodhpur or any other city, and everything on it is free.

Choose your paper first. GATE DA covers Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and GATE CSE covers Computer Science and Information Technology, each with its syllabus. DA and CS are an allowed two-paper pair in GATE 2027, if you want to write both.

After that, use /pyq for previous papers and /practice for topic-wise sets. The GATE DA 2027 preparation guide and the GATE CSE 2027 preparation guide set out a plan, and the other guides go deeper into single topics. The WhatsApp group linked from the DA or CSE paper page is where aspirants talk through questions.

The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview have the wider picture, and the Jaipur page covers the state capital.