Exam cut off’s or cut off list is a list of candidates, get selected for any course or higher studies on the basis of their academic performance. Different institutes offer different cut off percentage as their selection criteria. More competition also raises the cut off percentage.

Similarly, with GATE exam, after taking the exam students are not just offered with the admissions, preference is given or candidate is selected on the basis of GATE scorecard record with a proper cut off list procedure, so that a candidate with a high score should be preferred first. GATE result is declared on 31st March every year and after that candidates start approaching different institutes for admissions and institutes mentioned their selection criteria and also important dates related to various selection steps. The percentile score card of candidate shows the performance of the candidate and also the cut off list shows the overall performance of candidate which includes his/her GATE scores with written test and interview performance also. Competition level also increases the cutoff rank.

Here is the cut off of various departments in IIT-Kanpur:
GATE cut-offs of M.Tech direct admission (two years) were as follows:

GATE cut-offs for a call to the interview/written test (two years) were as follows.