GATE COAP 2025 Dates: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has released the schedule of the Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) 2025 for M.Tech counselling through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2025. Registration for COAP 2025 will begin soon at (gate.iisc.ac.in/coap2025).
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has declared the GATE 2025 results on March 19. Candidates can now apply for admission to various M.Tech programs based on their rank and scores.
Schedule of Main Rounds:
Round Number Period for viewing offers and taking decision Accept and Freeze Retain and Wait to Reject and Wait
Round 1 May 13 (10:00 AM) to May 15 (09:00 AM) Yes Yes Yes
Round 2 May 20 (10:00 AM) to May 22 (09:00 AM) Yes Yes Yes
Round 4 June 02 (10:00 AM) to June 04 (09:00 AM) Yes Yes/No* Yes
Round 5 June 08 (10:00 AM) to June 10 (09:00 AM) Yes No Yes
COAP 2025: Offer Acceptance Rules and Selection Options
If a candidate has accepted the same offer (for the same institute and same program) in the previous two rounds If the "Retain & Wait" option is selected twice, then this option will not be available for the third time.
Options for Rounds 1 to 4
In these rounds, the candidate will have the following three options:
Accept & Freeze - Accepting the offer and not participating in further rounds.
Retain & Wait - Retaining the offer and waiting for a better offer (but this cannot be selected more than twice for the same offer).
Reject - Rejecting the offer and waiting for a new offer in the next rounds.
Essential Condition
The "Retain & Wait" option must be selected in every round where it is available.
If the candidate does not take any decision in any round, all the offers of that round will be automatically considered rejected and they will not be available in future rounds.
Round 5 - Final Round
Accept & Freeze - Accepting the offer and ending the process.
Reject - Reject the offer and do not consider any other options.
Schedule of Additional Final Rounds:
Round 6 June 15 (10:00 AM) to June 17 (09:00 AM) Yes Yes
Round 7 June 21 (10:00 AM) to June 23 (09:00 AM) Yes Yes
Round 8 June 27 (10:00 AM) to June 29 (09:00 AM) Yes Yes
Round 9 July 03 (10:00 AM) to July 05 (09:00 AM) Yes Yes
Round 10 July 09 (10:00 AM) to July 11 (09:00 AM) Yes Yes
Rules for Final Rounds (Round 6 - 10)
Accept & Freeze – Accepting the offer and ending the further process.
Reject – Decline the offer and cease eligibility for any other offers in the future.
IITs continuing after Round 9
IITs that have decided to continue the COAP process after Round 9 will provide additional opportunities to candidates.
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