GATE - Structure of the Examination

The Latest Pattern From 2010 onwards

The GATE examination consists of a single paper of 3 hours duration, which contains 65 questions carrying a maximum of 100 marks..

The question paper of GATE will be fully objective type.

Candidates have to mark the correct choice by darkening the appropriate bubble against each question on an Objective Response Sheet (ORS).

There will be negative marking for wrong answers. The deduction will be 25% of the marks allotted.
A candidate will have to choose any one of the papers listed below:

Papers XE and XL are of general nature and will comprise the following Sections:

The GATE result will be announced on March 15, 2010 at 10:00 hrs. at GATE offices of IITs/ IISc.  

GATE scorecard 

• Scorecard will be sent only to the qualified candidates. No information will be sent to candidates who are not qualified.  

• The GATE scorecard is a valuable document. Care should be taken to preserve it. Additional scorecards (upto a maximum of two) will be issued on payment basis only once.  

• The scorecard cannot be treated as a proof of date of birth, category and disability status.  

• The scorecard will indicate GATE score and rank of the qualified candidates.

• The GATE score of a candidate is in the range 0 to 1000. It reflects the performance of a candidate, irrespective of the GATE paper or year in which he/she has qualified. Candidates with same GATE score from different GATE papers and/or years can be considered to have the same performance level. 

• The marks obtained by the candidate is normalized on the basis of the average and standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on the scorecard in GATE 2010. Subsequently, this is scaled with respect to the global average and global standard deviation so as to facilitate performance comparison across GATE papers and over a block of years since GATE 2005. 
  
  GATE SCORE = , 
  where 
  = marks obtained by the candidate. 
  = average of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE 2008 
  = standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE 2008 
  = average (global) of marks of all candidates who appeared across all paper and years (2005-2008) 
  = standard deviation (global) of marks of all candidates who appeared across all papers and years (2005-2008) 
  The maximum score can be 1000.

• The evaluation of the ORS is carried out by a computerized process using scanning machines, with utmost care. Requests for revaluation of the answer script and re-totaling of marks will not be entertained.

• The GATE results of the qualified candidates will be made available to interested organizations (educational institutions, R & D laboratories, industries, etc.) in India and abroad based on written request by the organization and on payment. Details can be obtained from GATE Chairmen of IITs/IISc.