Alerts and Updates for GATE Statistics

GATE 2027 is organized by IIT Madras; the official notification and brochure were released 20 July 2026 on gate2027.iitm.ac.in. The computer-based exam spans 30 papers, including Statistics (ST), across six days: 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21 February 2027.

GATE 2027 registration was postponed from an originally announced 14 August 2026 start; the GOAPS portal opened 27 August 2026, with the regular deadline 27 September 2026 and a late-fee window extending to 5 October 2026.

The official GATE 2027 ST syllabus, published by IIT Madras, runs across 12 sections — Calculus, Matrix Theory, Probability, Standard Univariate and Joint Distributions, Convergence of Random Variables, Stochastic Processes, Estimation, Testing of Hypotheses, Non-parametric Statistics, Multivariate Analysis and Regression Analysis.

Paper-specific exam dates and sessions (forenoon or afternoon) for ST within the six GATE 2027 test days have not yet been announced; IIT Madras is expected to confirm the schedule only with admit cards, tentatively in early January 2027.

GATE 2027 has not been notified yet. IIT Madras is expected to be the organising institute, with the official notification and information brochure anticipated in late July or August 2026. Until that brochure appears on the official GATE portal, every 2027 date in circulation is tentative.

The GOAPS application window for GATE 2027 is expected to open around 24 August 2026, with the regular deadline in late September 2026 and an extended late-fee window running to mid-October 2026. A correction facility is expected in November 2026. None of this is officially confirmed yet.

GATE 2027 is expected on 6, 7, 13 and 14 February 2027 as a three-hour computer-based test in forenoon and afternoon sessions, with admit cards expected in early January 2027 and results in March 2027. These dates are listed as expected, not confirmed by the organising institute.

Statistics (ST) is one of the 30 GATE papers and carries no Engineering Mathematics section: General Aptitude is 15 marks and core Statistics 85 marks, covering Calculus, Matrix Theory, Probability, Stochastic Processes, Estimation, Testing of Hypotheses, Nonparametric Statistics, Multivariate Analysis and Regression Analysis.

No ST syllabus revision has been announced for 2027. Until IIT Madras publishes the 2027 syllabus, the GATE 2026 ST syllabus and previous-year question papers released by IIT Guwahati remain the working reference. Negative marking applies only to MCQs, not to MSQ or NAT questions.