For B.Tech, you need to appear in IIT JEE and score a valid rank. If you are willing to take admission in M.Tech, a valid score in GATE is required. 

• After the submission of the application, a list of the shortlisted candidates will be posted on the college’s website. 
• If you are shortlisted, you will have to be present at the Campus on the date mentioned in the notice.
• You will first have to appear for an Aptitude Test which consists of English, Maths, and Basic Core questions. The results for this test are declared in an hour or two.
• If you are shortlisted after the Aptitude Test, you will have to attend a personal interview. This is considered the final round. 
• If you are selected for the interview, you will be welcomed to the college’s MTech course. Sometimes questions based on Maths, Matrices, Differential Equations, etc. could be asked in the interview.

This is because the college is more into CFD and analysis of materials where one needs to have a good hold in the Finite Element Analysis.

Getting a 9+ CGPA anywhere is not an easy job. You need to be constant in terms of study and securing 9+ CGPA overall requires a high CGPA in all the subjects. 

Credit System:

For IIT Gandhinagar, there is a credit system where the first semester consists of 22 credits with 4 courses of 4 credits and 2 are of 3 credits. Coming to the second semester, it has a total of 24 credits where 5 subjects have 4 credits and 2 subjects have 2 credits in all.

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Now to get all the credits and achieve a high CGPA, the 10 points that are A grade is not easy to attain as they are given to fewer students whereas there are more students in the race of 9 points. As the subjects in the first year are the same, the classes will have around 150 students.

To attain a high grade in IIT Gandhinagar your CGPA should not be lower than 9. To achieve this you need to prove yourself in every subject as well as keep a track of the grades in the regular study pattern and continuous assessment.

Awards:

To keep you motivated, IIT Gandhinagar includes felicitation of the top performers by the dean and distribution of several other medals for both academic and non-academic domains. One of the domains of getting a medal is exemplary human qualities. So, there is always a reward for the good deeds. 

The director in a five-week foundation program also guides students on how to achieve high grades. For the ones who are unable to attain good grades, the institute helps them find their own talents and interests.

To answer it in just one word “amazing”. My fellow classmates also agree to the fact that studying in IIT Gandhinagar is in fact amazing. The following points will give you an overall idea as to why - 

• The institution provides you with a healthy and competitive educational ambience.
• You will experience remarkable freedom.
• Good atmosphere and competitive spirit for extra-curricular activities.
• Flexible laboratory timings. There are no fixed hours and thus, you can work at any time of your choice.
• Facilities for various types of sports and necessary sports equipment. In addition to that, there is a big playground meant for cricket and football.
• There are facilities meant for music.
• There is a big, well-established library on the campus.
• The institute also provides gym facilities to its students.

Placements at IIT Gandhinagar are pretty decent. The following table shows the statistics for the same:

Apart from all these, there are many other facilities at IIT Gandhinagar. You will surely be head over heels once you join it.

IIT’s generally have a rigorous curriculum design making it difficult for individuals to focus on long-term career growth & development. Proper time management would definitely be the demand for that specific target set by the individual.

The important details to look upon are :

• The 75% attendance scenario is also mandatory and you must attend all classes. The criterion is not strict as it depends on the faculty members. Some make it compulsory while others can be a little lenient.
• The total class time required for the course is approximately 20 hours per week. This gives you enough scope to focus on other major areas of study after the regular course framework.
• If you study around 10 hours a week then it is easy to cope up with the assignments and exams.
• A teaching assistantship is also a major area that will take close to 8 hours per week providing a specific amount to the candidate.

M.Tech is a course that cannot be taken for granted so attending classes is a must, but cracking exams requires dedication & consistency on another level to maintain competitiveness and achieve your targets. On the whole, what a candidate needs to find is hands-on management skills.

No, IIT Gandhinagar does not shortlist candidates from 2nd round of M tech candidates. Also, they don’t provide any waiting list for the same. They keep the seats vacant if anyone does not take admission. Although it is not correct as the seats remain vacant which can be filled by other waiting list candidates and their year will also not get wasted but this is not in our hands.

M.Tech seats are first filled by premium IITs and then the remaining seats by outside students who have qualified GATE. If you enter the college by qualifying GATE then you will be eligible for a scholarship as well. 

The college also conducts its personal test for M.Tech admissions. In which they ask quantitative, reasoning and engineering mathematics. There are no spot admissions as of now. As the college is new more changes are expected in the coming future.

IIT Gandhinagar is the only IIT among various other semi-new IITs to have entirely shifted all its premises into its own campus. 

• IITGN is privileged with an afresh 21st-century campus, which is popularly facilitated with all the major necessities. Besides, it also is benefited with enough infrastructure that can weigh up to catering to more than its current magnitude of students as a whole.
• The new campus of the institution has both capacious classrooms, and small classrooms alongside huge auditoriums, offices for staff members, professors, and faculty employees all anew. 
• Alongside those spacious rooms, it also has newly made 6 hostel buildings and 2 messes with various modernized equipment like wifi routers, smoke detectors, and more devices alike. 
• The institution has a gymnasium, basketball court, cricket ground, volleyball court, temporary athletics track, TT room, and a football ground as well. There are things other than these which students can explore once they visit this vast campus.

Thus, as per your question concerns, IIT Gandhinagar has both facilities and infrastructure at par with other world-class institutes and is yet under development to become better.

The grading system at IIT is quite common and similar to other IIT’s. The procedure is quite systematic and involves steps like:

• You are awarded letter grade in courses and each letter has a numerical value. For instance, A is for 10; A – is 9; B is 8 and so on till F.
• The Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) or Semester Performance Index (SPI) is calculated thereafter. It is the weighted average of grades of courses.
• On the other hand, Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) takes semester grades into consideration.
• There is also a criterion of giving A+ which has a numerical significance of 11 and is generally synonymous with exceptional performance.
• Grading varies across and the average falls in the range of B or C which is close to 5-6. 

The overall CPI and SPI will never extend 10.0. However, the more A+ you get, the more there are chances to compensate for bad performance in any semester.