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GATE
GATE exam dates to be announced soon.
Exam Mode: | Online |
Admitcard Release Date: | Jan 03, 2020 |
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an examination conducted jointly by the Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (at Bombay,
Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) on behalf of the National Coordination
Board (NCB)-GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development
(MHRD), Government of India.
Qualifying in GATE is a mandatory requirement for seeking admission and/or financial assistance
to: (i) Master’s programs and direct Doctoral programs in Engineering/Technology/Architecture
and (ii) Doctoral programs in relevant branches of Science, in the institutions supported by the
MHRD and other Government agencies. Even in some colleges and institutions, which admit
students without MHRD scholarship/assistantship, the GATE qualification is mandatory. Further,
many Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) have been using the GATE score in their recruitment
process.
The information in this brochure is mainly categorized into Pre-Examination (Eligibility,
Application Submission, Examination Centres, etc.), Examination (Pattern, Marks/Score, etc.) and
Post-Examination (Answers, Contests, Results, Scorecard, etc.) sections.
IIT Delhi is the organising institute for GATE 2020.
• Information website for GATE 2020 is http://gate.iitd.ac.in
• GATE 2020 will be conducted on 25 subjects (also referred to as “papers”).
• Examination for all the 25 subjects (papers) will be conducted as ONLINE Computer Based
Test (CBT).
o The online examination paper will contain some questions for which numerical answers must
be keyed in by the candidate using a virtual keypad. Rest of the questions will be of Multiple
Choice Question (MCQ) type. The Candidates will use ONLY an on-screen virtual calculator
provided for the examination.
• A candidate can appear only in ANY ONE paper of the GATE examination.
• GATE 2020 examinations will be held during the forenoon and afternoon sessions on 1st, 2nd, 8th
& 9th of February 2020.
Examination for some of the papers in GATE 2020 may be held in multiple sessions.
However, a candidate can appear for the examination in one session ONLY.
Exact details of the complete examination schedule will be notified later on the GATE 2020
website.