2. GATE G RADUATE A PTITUDE T EST IN E NGINEERING

3. Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)  It is an entrance exam conducted annually for admissions to various science and technology post-graduate programs in India. India  Administration and conduction of the exam is supervised jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and seven Indian Institutes of Technology. on behalf of the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. Indian Institute of Science Indian Institutes of Technology  In recent years, a sharp increase has been observed in the number of candidates appearing in GATE exam.

4. Examination  The GATE examination consists of a single paper of 3 hours duration, which contains 65 questions carrying a maximum of 100 marks.on second Sunday of every february  The question paper consists of only multiple choice objective questions each having four choices for the answer.  Out of 65 questions, 55 are based on candidate's chosen specialization or branch, while remaining 10 are to test his/her general aptitude. Result The GATE 2012 Result was declared on March 15, 2012 at 10.00 am on GATE websites of IITs and IISc.

5. Bachelor degree holders in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture (4 years after 10+2) and those who are in the final year of such programmes.  From 2012, only final year students and passout students are eligible to write GATE exam

6. IISc Bangalore IIT BombayNIT Suratkal IIT GuwahatiJadavpur University IIT KanpurNIT Jamshedpur IIT KharagpurBITS Pillani IIT MadrasIT BHU IIT DelhiMLNR Allahabad IIT RoorkeeBIT Meshra TIFR Delhi College of Engineering NIT TrichyIIIT Hyderabad NIT WarangalOsmania University

7. ANDHRA PRADESH Central Institute of Tool Design, Hyderabad Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad College of Engineering, Andhra Univ GITAM Institute of Technology, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam JNTU College of Engineering, Anantapur JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada JNTU School of Planning & Architecture, Hyderabad Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Warangal Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering, Guntur Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering & Technology, Nandyal National Institute of Technology, Warangal SRKR Engineering College, Bhimavaram SV University College of Engineering, Titupati. Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Anantpur

8. GATE SCORE The GATE score is calculated using a specific formula, where the marks obtained by the candidate, average of marks of all candidates in that paper, standard deviation of marks of all candidates in that paper, global average of marks of all candidates in last 2 years and the standard deviation (global) of marks of all candidates in last 2 years are considered. The GATE score is set to zero if the value calculated by the formula is less than zero and the GATE score is set to 1000 if the value calculated by the formula is more than 1000.standard deviation GATE Score is calculated using the formula

9. Where m = marks obtained by the candidate. a = average of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE for that year S = standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE for that year a g = global average of marks of all candidates who appeared across all papers and years s g = global standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared across all papers and years

10. Qualifying Score A candidate is said to have qualified the exam if he/she has secured a minimum number of marks called Qualifying Score.The qualifying score for general category in each paper is (a + s) or 25, whichever is higher, where a and s are the average and standard deviation of marks of all candidates in a particular paper, with all marks less than zero, converted to zero.

11. YearNumber of Students 2012777134 2011552530 2010414093 PaperNumber of Students ECE176944 CSE156780 ME112320. EE 110125 Number of students appearing for the examination The number of candidates appearing in GATE is increasing every year.

12. PaperNumber of Students ECE137856 CSE136027 ME81175 BT16425

13. Discipline/ Course / Stream Number of students appeared Computer Science and Engineering and IT 107086 Electronics and Communication Engineering 104291 Electrical Engineering 52246 Mechanical Engineering 59338 Civil Engineering 19406

14. APPLYING TO PSUS BASED ON GATE SCORE Many Public Sector Undertaking likePublic Sector Undertaking  Indian Oil Corporation Limited Indian Oil Corporation Limited  Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited  National Thermal Power CorporationNational Thermal Power Corporation  Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd will be using GATE Score for selection