GATE 2027 in Kota: Exam City, IIT Delhi Zone and the Madhya Pradesh Split

The official exam-city page has Kota as a single Rajasthan entry, in the zone coordinated by IIT Delhi. You select Kota, GATE assigns a centre in or near the city, and the admit card gives the address. You cannot ask for a particular part of town.

The zone label only decides two things for you: which five cities you may add to Kota, and whose office answers your exam-city questions. Nobody from Kota is sent to Delhi because of it.

The rules on that page are few. Choose six cities, all from one zone. The list is tentative, so GATE may add or drop a city, and may allot a city outside your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Every city you can pair with Kota is in this table. Nothing else qualifies.

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

Two things stand out for a Kota student. Rajasthan is entirely in this zone, so a list built only from Rajasthan cities is always valid. And Madhya Pradesh is not one block: Ujjain and Indore are in our zone, so if your family lives in either, it is a legitimate back-up.

Madhya Pradesh is split between two zones on the official list, and both halves matter to students here.

• Same zone as Kota: Indore and Ujjain (IIT Delhi).
• Different zone: Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Sagar and Satna (IIT Kanpur).

So a Kota list can include Ujjain but not Bhopal, and Indore but not Gwalior. If you are studying in Bhopal or Gwalior and will be there in February, you have to choose. Either build an IIT Kanpur-zone list there, as the Bhopal and Gwalior pages describe, or keep an IIT Delhi-zone list and travel to Kota.

Other cross-border traps work the same way. Agra and Jhansi are IIT Kanpur zone. Ahmedabad and Vadodara in Gujarat are IIT Bombay zone. NOIDA, Ghaziabad and Roorkee are IIT Roorkee zone, while Greater NOIDA and Mathura are ours. The Delhi NCR page explains that last split in more detail.

Kota first. After that, choose places you could reach in time on a weekend morning, or where you have somewhere to stay the night before. One list for someone living in Kota:

1. Kota
2. Jaipur
3. Ajmer
4. Ujjain
5. Udaipur
6. Indore, or Jodhpur if you have people there

Move things to fit your February. A student from Sikar or Hanumangarh studying in Kota can keep the home city on the list. Someone working in Gurugram or New Delhi by then can put those first, since they are in the same zone. The Jaipur, Jodhpur and Indore pages look at the zone from those cities.

Registration has closed. The official dates page lists the application data correction window, on candidate request with a fee, as TBA, so treat your six cities as fixed until it opens.

Exam-city questions go to the GATE office at IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi– 110 016: gateoffice@admin.iitd.ac.in or 011-26591749. Questions on your application go to IIT Madras, the organising institute, at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or 044-22578200. Write from your registered email ID with your enrolment ID.

The important dates page puts the city allotment notification on 4 January 2027 and the results on 19 March 2027. The admit card date is TBA. The exam days are the Saturdays and Sundays of 6 and 7, 13 and 14, and 20 and 21 February 2027, and the page notes that all dates are liable to change.

When the admit card comes, find the centre on a map that evening and work out the route from where you will sleep. Centres are not always central. If you are allotted Ajmer, Ujjain or another back-up, go the day before. Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID named in your application, and anything else the admit card asks for. If you are writing DA and CS together, the two-paper page says your second centre may be different, though in the same city.

IIIT Kota is in the city. Its own site says it now works from its permanent campus at Ranpur, at SPL-269, RIICO Industrial Area, Kuber Extension, Ranpur, Kota 325 003, and that it is mentored by MNIT Jaipur. The same site puts the campus about 25 km from Kota Junction and about 20 km from the Kota bus stand, so anyone visiting from the city should allow for that.

In Jaipur, MNIT Jaipur is on Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, and GATEiit also has a page for IIT Jodhpur. Across the Madhya Pradesh border, GATEiit has pages for IIT Indore and IIITM Gwalior. Each page explains that institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates, and /institutes has the full list.

The exam city does not affect admission anywhere. Writing in Kota gives no advantage at IIIT Kota.

GATEiit is online only. It has no centre, office or classroom in Kota or in any other city, and the material costs nothing.

Start from 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 its WhatsApp group. DA and CS are an allowed two-paper pair in GATE 2027.

Then use /pyq for previous papers and /practice for topic-wise sets. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide lay out a plan, and /guides covers single topics. The GATE 2027 page and the city overview have the national view.