GATE - Structure of the Examination

The Latest Pattern From 2007 onwards

The GATE is held every year on the second Sunday of February, across the country in over 100 cities. At present nearly 60,000 students write GATE every year. Candidates can choose a single paper of 3 hours duration to appear in GATE from the discipline papers shown in the following Table.

Papers XE and XL are general in nature and comprise of the following sections: 
Candidates appearing in XE or XL papers are required to answer

The GATE result will be announced on March 15, 2008 at 10000 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 2008. 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.