IIT Madras - Indian Institute of Technology Adyar Chennai Answered Questions

Department of Management Studies at IIT-Madras and Mumbai requires 60% marks in graduation (any stream) for MBA admission in both categories as regular or sponsored for general candidate. Hence, you are not eligible here. DOMS at IISc also required first class B.E/B.Tech for MBA programme.

GATE percentile represents a candidate's performance compared to all the candidates appeared in that same paper in the same year. Whereas, GATE score represents a candidates performance in comparison to all the candidates appeared in GATE exam since 2007. GATE score and percentile change with the standard of GATE paper. If GATE paper is easy then most of the students get good scores but the all India rank will be high too. If a paper is tough then with less score one can get a very good all India rank. Now, comes the real question. How much GATE percentile or GATE score is needed for M.Tech admission to IITs? The answer is simple. We need to find an absolute attribute to fix it and rephrase the question. A better question can be what should be the AIR (All India Rank) in GATE to get into IITs? To answer this, let's calculate the number of seats in IITs. According to my analysis, there are almost 50~60 seats in each department on average in IITs. And considering only old IITs take admissions for M.Tech, there will be 7X50 (350) seats for M.Tech in IITs for almost every department. Now, let's assume, few people go to jobs, study abroad and government sector job, we can increase it up to 500 AIR. Apart from this, few departments in IITs conduct their own test and interview for M.Tech admissions may allow students till 700 AIR to be a part of the race to join IITs, this is a too risky side and depends on chance. Now, we have an idea what rank we need get into IITs as we are preparing for GATE, we need to know how much marks we should manage to get into IITs. Our average marks in the test should be almost close to top marks and we can keep the buffer of 5 to 7 marks. It means we need to score something around but not less than (top marks 7) marks. Take practice tests and solve previous year questions to get an idea where do you stand. If you are getting low marks, put a little more extra effort. Just don't give it. Believe me, IITs are worth giving a hard try you will enjoy the success later.

This is really a complicated question because both GATE score, as well as a percentile, are relative terms. These are measures of performance of a candidate in GATE based on the performance of other candidates appeared in the GATE exam.
GATE percentile represents a candidates performance compared to all the candidates appeared in that same paper in the same year. Whereas, GATE score represents a candidates performance in comparison to all the candidates appeared in GATE exam since 2007.
GATE score and percentile change with the standard of GATE paper. If GATE paper is easy then most of the students get good scores but the all India rank will be high too. If the paper is tough then with less score one can get a very good all India rank.
Now, comes the real question. How much GATE percentile or GATE score is needed for M.Tech admission to IITs? The answer is simple. We need to find an absolute attribute to fix it and rephrase the question. A better question is what should be the AIR (All India Rank) in GATE to get into IITs?
To answer this, let's calculate the number of seats in IITs. According to my analysis, there are almost 50~60 seats in each department on average in IITs. And considering only old IITs take admissions for M.Tech, there will be 7X50 (350) seats for M.Tech in IITs for almost every department.
Now, let's assume, few people go to jobs, study abroad and Govt. sector job we can increase it up to 500 AIR. Apart from this, few departments in IITs conduct their own test and interview for M.Tech admissions may allow students till 700 AIR to be a part of the race to join IITs, this risky side and depends on chance.
Now, we have an idea of the rank we need to get into IITs. As we are preparing for GATE we need to know how much marks we should manage to get into IITs. Our average score in the test should be almost close to top marks and we can keep the buffer of 5 to 7 marks. It means we need to score something around but not less than (top marks 7) marks.
Take practice tests and solve previous year questions to get an idea where do you stand. If you are getting less score put a little more extra effort. Just don't give it. Believe me, IITs are worth giving a hard try, you will enjoy the success later.
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Consider all the factors before joining any B-School:1) ROI2) Location 3) Average package offered4) Batch size5) College legacy and pedagogy6) Live project opportunity7) Diversity Alumnus Personal preference would be IIT Madras over IMI Delhi. All the best.

Hello Fahd,
I am afraid your dream of getting admission via lateral mode in IIT Madras needs a little amendment. IIT's do not give lateral admission but accept diploma as equivalent to class 12th and give admission. Hence, if you have scored 75% or more in your Diploma then you can appear for JEE Mains and then JEE advanced for admission.
Best wishes to you.