Guidelines
The COAP is designed to ensure that all M.Tech. seats are filled at participating institutes and to provide a unified platform for PSUs to post job offers for GATE-qualified candidates. Its primary goal is to create fair opportunities for both institutes seeking to admit students and individuals pursuing M.Tech. programs or PSU employment.
- Offer Upload and Selection
- Participating Institutes/PSUs will upload their offers (seats/jobs) on specific, predetermined dates (see “Important Dates”).
- Registered candidates can select only one offer from among all those available in each round.
- Decision Options
In each main round, candidates may choose one of the following three options:-
Accept and Freeze
- Select this option to accept one of the available offers and opt out of further consideration or upgrades in subsequent rounds.
- After choosing “Accept and Freeze,” click Submit to confirm.
- Next, visit the corresponding Institute’s admission portal or PSU’s job portal and follow their specified procedures.
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Retain and Wait
- Select this option to provisionally accept one of the available offers while still seeking possible upgrades to higher preferences in subsequent rounds.
- If a higher preference offer is made later, the current offer will be released.
- You can choose “Retain and Wait” for the same offer (same institute and same program) only twice.
- After choosing “Retain and Wait,” click Submit to confirm your decision.
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Reject and Wait
- Select this option if you do not wish to accept any of the current offers but would still like to be considered for your higher preferences in future rounds.
- The same offers you reject in this round will not appear in subsequent rounds.
- After choosing “Reject and Wait,” click Submit to confirm your decision.
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Accept and Freeze
- Submission Procedure
- After making your final choice, you must click Submit to finalize it.
- Failure to do so will be treated as if you did not access COAP (see Guideline 5).
- Admission or Joining
- Once you have selected “Accept and Freeze,” you must visit the relevant organization’s website or admission portal to complete their admission or joining formalities by the stated deadline.
- Effect of Rejection or Non-Submission
- Any offer you reject in a given round will not be extended to you again in later rounds.
- If you choose “Retain and Wait” or “Reject and Wait,” you may still be considered for your higher preferences, if any, in subsequent rounds.
- If you do not access COAP or do not make a decision in a particular round, any offers in that round are automatically considered “Rejected.” However, you will still be considered for higher preferences, if any, in later rounds.
- Decisive (Final) Round
- In the decisive round (final main round and any additional rounds), only two options are available: “Accept and Freeze” or “Reject.”
- Accept and Freeze: Choose this if you wish to accept one of the offers and follow the subsequent admission/joining procedures by the specified deadline.
- Reject: Choose this if you are not willing to accept any of the current offers. All offers in that round will be considered rejected.
- If you do not access COAP or fail to make a decision in the final round, all offers are considered rejected.
- Exclusive Availability of Offers
- During COAP’s operation window, offers from participating Institutes/PSUs are exclusively accessible via COAP. All acceptance, upgrade, or rejection actions must be carried out on the COAP platform.
- Action Flow Charts
- Refer to Action Flow Charts I and II in Registration Procedure Page for a detailed illustration of how each COAP Round of Offers is conducted.
Helpdesk
For any inquiries, please include a detailed description of your query along with your GATE and COAP registration numbers to help us address your concerns promptly.
Contact Us
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Email: coap25.gate@iisc.ac.in