Hello Aspirant,

Since you have EE background as mentioned, doing M tech in the preferred stream from a good IIT, you must first qualify the cutoff for EE  branch. In order to qualify, you must score the minimum marks that is required in the GATE exam released by the official authorities. But, if you score lower than the GATE cutoff for EE, will have very less chances of admissions.

GATE cutoff for EE branch depends upon various factors and parameters like no. of students appeared for the exam, seat availability, exam difficulty level and previous years cutoff trends.

Seeing the previous years cutoff trends, the cutoff for EE branch in continuously increasing each year to year.

You can see the previous years cutoff trends of various IIT given below for EE branch,

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-cutoff-for-ee

Hope that helps. Good luck