Engineering Entrance Exam

Yes ofcourse you are eligible for GATE. This is one of the exam held for doing the post graduation courses in IITs and top colleges.

Campus selection not only depends on college. You must have to quality and skills for that. You scored very well in board, so you can get good college. But, work hard in college is very compulsory to get campus.

For general Candidates the minimum cutoff for CSE will be around 140 and for ECE minimum cutoff will be around 130.For OBC candidates the minimum cutoff for CSE will be around 130 and for ECE minimum cutoff will be around 115.

No, CUSAT closes at very high rank. At most, it goes upto 3000 rank. You better start searching for better options.

Your chances of getting ECE are quite low. Try for some other good private colleges.

If 26500 is your general rank, then you can choose NIT Jamshedpur for Mechanical engineering or if it is your OBC rank, then it is a little bit difficult for getting mech at NIT.

It is not at all necessary if you got a good rank from COMEDK under 5k. The fee varies for every college in COMEDK so in total, you have to pay initially 1.75-.2.25 lakhs depending on which college you opt for including DD that you have to pay in COMEDK.

Wait for the result of first counselling round.