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Trying to get into NITs or IITs for B.Arch with NATA? Hate to break it to you—but NATA scores don't work there. NITs only accept JEE Main Paper 2, and IITs want you to clear JEE Advanced + the AAT (Architecture Aptitude Test). Save your NATA scores for private architecture schools or other institutes that actually accept it. For NIT/IIT, it's JEE route only—no shortcuts.

Yes, it is possible to get admission to IIT Kharagpur for MSc+PhD in Mathematics with a rank of 250 in IIT JAM for candidates belonging to the General AI category. Round 4 of the cutoff list has been released and the cutoff rank for admission to MSc+PhD in Mathematics was closed at 254 for candidates belonging to the General AI category. For candidates belonging to the OBC AI category, the cutoff rank was closed at 391. For candidates belonging to the SC AI category, the cutoff was closed at 1014. For more categories such as ST AI and EWS AI category, getting admission to the college with this rank is possible. 

There are only 2 IITs that offer Nanotechnology courses in India at present. You can pursue those courses at the PG level. You can study Nanotechnology courses in IITs, like IIT Roorkee and IIT Madras, which offer M.Tech in Nanotechnology and M.Tech in Functional Materials and Nanotechnology, respectively. The Nanotechnology course fees at the IITs is around INR 20,000.

It will require a very high JEE Advanced rank to get admissions in an IIT. In the top IITs (e.g Bombay, Delhi) popular branches such as Computer Science Engineering (CSE) may require an All India Rank (AIR) of below 100-200 in the General category. In other faculty members and newer IITs ranks can go up to 10,000 or more depending upon the institute, course or degree. These cut offs vary every year depending on the difficulty level of the exam, applicants and seats.

To get into B.Sc Chemistry at an IIT, you must qualify JEE Advanced. For General category, a rank under 6000 is generally needed. Top IITs may require ranks within 1500–3000. For OBC, ranks up to 8000 may work, and for SC/ST, ranks up to 25,000–35,000 might be accepted.

Class 12 marks do not impact  into IIT admissions. But if you get 70 and above then there are more chances to be highlighted after GATE.  

Gate is given for Masters admission especially M.Tech . 

Gate score between 400 and 800 is required to get admission in IIT or NITs.

Yes, you can get admission in NIT or IIT for M.Tech without qualifying GATE exam it is very hard but not impossible. As many IIT and NITs offer for biotechnology programme which is given as follows:

• IIT Madras 
• IIT Kharagpur 
• IIT Guwahati 
• NIT Surath Kal 

IIT Guwahati will set the GATE 2026 question paper. The GATE 2026 official website has been released along with the GOAPS portal, exam dates and information brochure. The GATE 2026 exam dates are February 7, 8, 14, and 15.