Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT, Madras) on March 15 announced GATE 2019 results. Soon after the results were declared, the names of GATE 2019 toppers started pouring in. According to the final list, Shashank Mangal of Morena secured an All India Rank 1 (AIR) with 98.9 percentile in GATE 2019’s IN (Instrumentation Engineering) paper. Shashank was then a final year student of IIT Dhanbad.
Besides him, there are other candidates who have secured an AIR 1 in GATE 2019. Take a look at the complete list of GATE 2019 toppers below.
| Name |
Branch |
All India Rank (AIR) |
|---|---|---|
| Prakhar Singh |
CE |
1 |
| Ritesh Lalwani |
EE |
1 |
| Rajat Soni |
EC |
1 |
| Pranav Sharma |
CS |
1 |
| Shashank Mangal |
IN |
1 |
| Suryanarayana Vijaykumar V |
PI |
1 |
| Sumit Bhamboo |
ME |
1 |
| Mukesh Punia |
EE |
2 |
| Aakash Verma |
ME |
7 |
| Shryans Mehta |
CE |
7 |
| Gaurav Srivastava |
EE |
27 |
| Atindranath Ghosh |
CE |
5 |
| Siddharth Wadla |
ME |
4 |
| Shashwat |
CH |
1 |
| Manav Agarwal |
CH |
3 |
| Mayank Dixit |
CH |
4 |
| Shayantan Bhattacharya |
EE |
5 |
| Sukanya Prasad |
TE |
33 |
| Uditya Raj |
CE |
19 |
Along with the exam results of all the 24 papers, the institute also released the GATE 2019 cut-offs for all the subjects. Of all the subjects, Metallurgical Engineering (ME) has the highest cut-off of 53.5 for general candidates, 48.1 for OBC (NCL) candidates and 35.7 for SC/ST/PwD candidates. Take a look at GATE 2019 cut-offs for all streams below.
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| GATE 2019 Paper |
Qualifying Marks |
||
| General |
OBC (NCL) |
SC/ST/PwD |
|
| Aerospace Engineering (AE) |
33.5 |
30.2 |
22.3 |
| Agricultural Engineering (AG) |
28.3 |
25.5 |
18.9 |
| Architecture and Planning (AR) |
41 |
36.9 |
27.3 |
| Biotechnology (BT) |
35.9 |
32.3 |
23.9 |
| Civil Engineering (CE) |
28.2 |
25.4 |
18.8 |
| Chemical Engineering (CH) |
34.8 |
31.3 |
23.2 |
| Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) |
29.5 |
26.6 |
19.7 |
| Chemistry (CY) |
32 |
28.8 |
21.3 |
| Electronics and Communication Engineering (EC) |
26.7 |
24 |
17.8 |
| Electrical Engineering (EE) |
39.6 |
35.6 |
26.4 |
| Ecology and Evolution (EY) |
37.1 |
33.4 |
24.7 |
| Geology and Geophysics (GG) |
44.5 |
40.1 |
29.7 |
| Instrumentation Engineering (IN) |
31.9 |
28.7 |
21.3 |
| Mathematics (MA) |
25 |
22.5 |
16.7 |
| Mechanical Engineering (ME) |
34.1 |
30.7 |
22.7 |
| Mining Engineering (MN) |
31.5 |
28.4 |
21 |
| Metallurgical Engineering (MT) |
53.5 |
48.1 |
35.7 |
| Petroleum Engineering (PE) |
49.9 |
44.9 |
33.3 |
| Physics (PH) |
25.2 |
22.7 |
16.8 |
| Production and Industrial Engineering (PI) |
32.2 |
29 |
21.5 |
| Statistics (ST) |
32.5 |
29.2 |
21.7 |
| Textile Engineering and Fibre Science (TF) |
40.1 |
36.1 |
26.7 |
| Engineering Sciences (XE-A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H) |
26.7 |
24 |
17.8 |
| Life Sciences (XL-P, Q, R, S, T, U) |
36.7 |
33 |
24.5 |
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