# COAP 2025

**Source**: https://gate.iisc.ac.in/coap2025/guidelines.php
**Parent**: https://gate.iisc.ac.in/coap2025/

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## 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.

1. **Offer Upload and Selection**
   - Participating Institutes/PSUs will upload their offers (seats/jobs) on specific, predetermined dates (see “[Important Dates](https://gate.iisc.ac.in/coap2025/important-dates.php)”).
   - Registered candidates can select only one offer from among all those available in each round.
2. **Decision Options**\
   In each main round, candidates may choose one of the following three options:
   1. **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.
   2. **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.
   3. **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.
3. **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).
4. **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.
5. **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.
6. **Decisive (Final) Round**
   - In the decisive round (final main round and any additional rounds), only two options are available: “Accept and Freeze” or “Reject.”
   1. **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.
   2. **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.
7. **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.
8. **Action Flow Charts**
   - Refer to **Action Flow Charts I and II** in [Registration Procedure Page](https://gate.iisc.ac.in/coap2025/registration-procedure.php) 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**\
 +91 (80) 2293-2392 | +91 (80) 2360-1227

**Call Timings:**  ​10:00 AM - 12:30 PM and 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Monday-Friday)\
(Note: Candidates are requested to call us on Government working days only)

Email: coap25.gate@iisc.ac.in