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Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering

GATE is a all India Examination managed and conducted by the Indian Institute of Science and Seven Indian Insititute of Technology for National Coordination Baord.

The Gate 2012 is here, Many Government and Non Government Companies are now looking for GATE Score for candidate slection/hiring.

Improve your chances of a bright career with high GATE Score.

Forms are usually available in late September till late October at prominent SBI Branches. The students can appear in GATE under different disciplines according to their M.Tech interests. The discipline specification is done while filling the forms. Apart from the basic engineering disciplines there are XE and XL papers which are general in nature.

GATE is conducted through the constitution of eight zones. The zones and the corresponding administrative institutes are:

  • Zone-1: Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
  • Zone-2: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • Zone-3: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  • Zone-4: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  • Zone-5: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • Zone-6: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Zone-7: Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Zone-8: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

The current format of the GATE exam paper pattern is:

GATE 2012 Question Types:
1. Multiple Choice Questions.
2. Common Data Questions.
3. Linked Answer Questions.

  • Total of 150 marks, fully objective, with three sections
  • Group I: Question Numbers 1 to 20 (20 questions) will carry one mark each.
  • Group II: Question numbers 21 to 75 (55 questions) will carry two marks each. Out of this, Q.71 to Q.75 may be common data based questions.
  • Group III: Question Numbers 76 to 85 (10 questions) will carry two marks each.

Advantages of GATE Scores

Government / Public Sector Units (PSU)'s like Indian OIL, NTPC Limited, BARC, NPCIL, HAL many more, give importance to GATE scores for various job positions in their organizations.

Applying to various institutes

Usually IISc application dates are within 4-5 days of announcement of results. Most institutes do not specify their cutoffs for previous years. So there is a general confusion in terms of which institutes and which specializations to go for.But in the recent years IIT Kharagpur alone in specifying its last year cut-off mark

JEST : Another exam on lines of GATE

External Links
Gate 2012 Website
Wiki on Gate

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