GATE 2011

Sale of Application Form / Online Application commences on 21-09-2010

Date of Online Examination: 30-01-2011 (Sunday)           Date of Offline Examination: 13-02-2011 (Sunday)

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an all India examination administered and conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and seven Indian Institutes of Technology on behalf of the National Coordination Board - GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.

The GATE committee, which comprises of representatives from the administering institutes, is the sole authority for regulating the examination and declaring the results.

GATE is conducted through the constitution of eight zones. The zones and the corresponding administrative institutes are:

      Zone-1: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
      Zone-2: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
      Zone-3: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
      Zone-4: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
      Zone-5: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
      Zone-6: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 
      Zone-7: Indian Institute of Technology Madras 
      Zone-8: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

The overall coordination and responsibility of conducting GATE 2011 lies with Indian Institute of Technology Madras,designated as the Organising Institute for GATE 2011 .

Admission to postgraduate programmes with MHRD and some other Government scholarships/assistantships in engineering colleges/institutes is open to those who qualify in GATE examination. GATE qualified candidates with Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology/Architecture or Master's degree in any branch of Science/Mathematics/Statistics/Computer Applications are eligible for admission to Master's degree programmes in Engineering/Technology/Architecture as well as for Doctoral programmes in relevant branches of Science with MHRD or other government scholarships/assistantships. To avail the scholarship, the candidate must secure admission to such a postgraduate programme, as per the prevailing procedure of the admitting institution. However, candidates with Master's degree in Engineering/Technology/Architecture may seek admission to relevant Doctoral programmes with scholarship/assistantship without appearing in the GATE examination.

GATE qualification is also a minimum requirement to apply for various fellowships awarded by many Government organizations.

IMPORTANT DATES

Commencement of sale of Application Form and Information Brochure	Tuesday	September 21, 2010
Commencement of Online Application Form submission	Tuesday	September 21, 2010 (09:00 Hrs onwards)
Last date for issue of Information Brochure and Application Form at Bank Counters	Wednesday	October 27, 2010
Last date for issue of Information Brochure and Application Form at zonal GATE office counters	Friday	October 29, 2010
Last date for Submission of Online Application Form (website closure)	Wednesday	October 27, 2010 (18:00 Hrs)
Last date for the Receipt of completed Offline/Online Application Form at the respective zonal GATE Office	Tuesday	November 02, 2010
Website display of final list of registered candidates, choices of test paper and examination city	Friday	December 10, 2010
Date for reporting any discrepancy in the choice of examination cities or in the choice of GATE paper	Friday	December 31, 2010
Date for reporting the non-receipt of admit cards for ONLINE examination papers	Thursday	January 20, 2011
Last date for reporting the non-receipt of admit cards for OFFLINE examination papers	Monday	January 31, 2011
GATE 2011 Online Examination Papers: GG and TF	Sunday	January 30, 2011 (09:00 Hrs to 12:00 Hrs)
GATE 2011 Online Examination Papers: AE and MN	Sunday	January 30, 2011 (14:00 Hrs to 17:00 Hrs)
GATE 2011 Offline Examination Papers: AR, BT, CE, CH, CS, ME, PH and PI	Sunday	February 13, 2011 (09:00 Hrs to 12:00 Hrs)
GATE 2011 Offline Examination Papers: AG, CY, EC, EE, IN, MA, MT, XE and XL	Sunday	February 13, 2011 (14:00 Hrs to 17:00 Hrs)
Announcement of results	Tuesday	March 15, 2011 (10:00 Hrs)

ELIGIBILITY FOR GATE EXAMINATION

The following categories of candidates are eligible to appear for GATE:

• Bachelor's degree holders in Engineering/Technology/Architecture (4 years after 10+2) and those who are in the final or pre-final year of such programmes.
• Master's 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.
• Candidates in the second or higher year of the Four-year Integrated Master's degree programme (Post-B.Sc.) in Engineering/Technology or in the third or higher year of Five-year Integrated Master's degree programme and Dual Degree programme in Engineering/Technology.
• Candidates with qualifications obtained through examinations conducted by professional societies recognized by UPSC/AICTE (e.g. AMIE by IE(I), AMICE(I) by the Institute of Civil Engineers (India)-ICE(I)) as equivalent to B.E./B.Tech. Those who have completed section A or equivalent of such professional courses are also eligible.

GATE EXAMINATION STRUCTURE

GATE Examination Papers                                              GATE Examination Type

A candidate can apply for only ONE of the 21 papers listed in the table given below. In the tables given below, the columns titled 'Paper Title' and 'Section Title' provide links to the appropriate syllabus.

The choice of the appropriate paper is the responsibility of the candidate. Some guidelines in this respect are suggested below.

The candidate is expected to appear in a paper appropriate to the discipline of his/her qualifying degree. The candidate is, however, free to choose any paper according to his/her admission plan, keeping in mind the eligibility criteria of the institutions in which he/she wishes to seek admission.

 

GATE Examination Papers

Code Paper Title AE Aerospace Engineering AG Agricultural Engineering AR Architecture and Planning BT Biotechnology CE Civil Engineering CH Chemical Engineering CS Computer Science and Information Technology CY Chemistry EC Electronics and Communication Engineering EE Electrical Engineering GG Geology and Geophysics

Code Paper Title IN Instrumentation Engineering MA Mathematics ME Mechanical Engineering MN Mining Engineering MT Metallurgical Engineering PH Physics PI Production and Industrial Engineering TF Textile Engineering and Fibre Science XE Engineering Sciences XL Life Sciences

 XE (Engineering Sciences) and XL (Life Sciences) papers are of general nature and will comprise of the sections listed below. A candidate appearing in XE or XL paper will be required to answer three sections apart from the General Aptitude (GA) questions. Section A is compulsory in XE paper and Section H is compulsory in XL paper. The candidate can choose any two out of the remaining sections listed against the respective papers, at the time of examination.

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XE: Engineering Sciences
Paper	Section	Section Title
XE	A	Engineering Mathematics (Compulsory)
XE	B	Fluid Mechanics
XE	C	Materials Science
XE	D	Solid Mechanics
XE	E	Thermodynamics
XE	F	Polymer Science and Engineering
XE	G	Food Technology
XL: Life Sciences
Paper	Section	Title of the Section
XL	H	Chemistry (Compulsory)
XL	I	Biochemistry
XL	J	Botany
XL	K	Microbiology
XL	L	Zoology
XL	M	Food Technology

  

GATE Examination Type

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 will consist of only objective questions. In all papers other than AE and TF, all the questions are of multiple choice type. In AE and TF papers, the question paper will consist of 60 questions of multiple choice type and 5 questions of numerical answer type. For multiple choice type questions, each question will have four choices for the answer. For numerical answer type questions, each question will have a number as the answer. Click here to view the pattern of question papers. The examination for the papers with codes AE, GG, MN and TF will be carried out ONLINE using computers where the candidates will be required to enter the answer for each question using keyboard/mouse. For all other papers, the candidates will have to mark the correct choice on an Optical Response Sheet (ORS) by darkening the appropriate bubble against each question. There will be negative marking for each wrong answer, except for the numerical answer type questions.

Each GATE paper shall have a General Aptitude (GA) component carrying 15 marks.

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