GATE

GATE : Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering  is an entrance exam conducted annually for admissions to various science and technology post-graduate programs in India. This exam is conducted by the IISc and the group of IITs(taking turns year after year) every February on behalf of the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. Apart from MTech Admissions, GATE Score is being increasingly used in Recruitment of Engineering graduates into top PSU companies in India.


The exam is conducted in two modes- offline and online. More and more papers are being converted into the online version every year, as an effort to computerize this exam. Also, for any given paper, the exam is available in one of the modes, not both.
The examination is of three hour duration with patterns and syllabi varying from paper to paper. The IITs introduced the General Aptitude component in GATE 2010, which is common to all papers.

GATE Results are usually declared in the middle of march, a little over one month after the exam. The candidate may view total marks scored, candidate's ORS responses, since GATE 2012, GATE Score, All India Rank and the cut off marks for various categories in the candidate's paper.

The following categories of candidates are eligible to appear in GATE:
1.Bachelor degree holders in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture (4 years after 10+2) and those who are in the final year of such programmes.
2.Master degree holders in any branch of Science/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Computer Applications or equivalent and those who are in the final or pre-final year of such programmes.

 In GATE 2012, only 14 out of every 100 candidates qualified.

The PSUs have decided that GATE score shall be the primary criteria for initial shortlisting. This change was the primary cause for the rapid increase in applicants for GATE 2012.
IOCL was the first PSU which successfully tested out this system and was followed, two years later by NTPC, IOCL & Powergrid.
Usually these companies release their recruitment notifications right after GATE notification, indicating that candidates have to take GATE to be considered for a job in their organizations.

For GATE Syllabus (click here)
For GATE Previous Year Papers (click here)

Source: Wikipedia
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