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GATE COAP 2025 Deadline to Exercise Options Preponed; Round 2 Now Ends on May 25 instead of 26
GATE COAP 2025 Deadline to Exercise Options Preponed:
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has decided to prepone the deadline for exercising Round 2 choices in the GATE COAP 2025 process. This year, applicants only have until May 25 till 6 PM to consider and respond to their offers. After Round 1 ended on May 20, the decision to prepone the date for Round 2 was made to help better line up with the academic and processing timelines of the colleges and PSUs. By shortening the Round 2 window by one day, IISc now ask students to make their decisions faster. As a result, candidates seeking M.Tech admissions or applying for jobs at PSUs with GATE scores from the years 2023, 2024 or 2025 while relying on COAP to manage their admission and job offers from IITs and IISc, are now affected. Additional COAP counselling rounds are also preponed, with Round 3 now planned for June 1 followed by Round 4 and 5 on June 7 and 13, respectively.
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Important Dates for GATE COAP 2025 Deadline to Exercise Options
Students can check below important dates from Round 2 till Round 5 for GATE COAP 2025 Deadlines to Exercise Options:Particulars | Dates |
|---|---|
GATE COAP 2025: Deadline to Exercise Options (Round 2) | May 25 by 6 PM |
GATE COAP 2025: Deadline to Exercise Options (Round 3) | June 1 by 6 PM |
GATE COAP 2025: Deadline to Exercise Options (Round 4) | June 7 by 6 PM |
GATE COAP 2025: Deadline to Exercise Options (Round 5) | June 13 by 6 PM |
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In rounds 2 to 4, students must select from one of the three options per offer: "Accept and Freeze" (means to decide on the first offer and exit further rounds), "Retain and Wait" (means to hold the current offer and pause for a better one - can be done only twice for the same offer) or "Reject and Wait" means to decline the current offer and maintain eligibility for further rounds. As soon as Round 5 begins, which is the decisive round, only “Accept and Freeze” or “Reject” options are allowed; “Retain and Wait” is no longer permitted.
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