Graduate
Aptitude Test in Engineering - GATE 2011
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.
GATE Examination
Structure
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
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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Engineering Sciences |
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Section Title
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XL:
Life Sciences |
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Section |
Title of the
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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.
Old
Question Papers
http://gate.iitm.ac.in/gateqps.php
For
More details contact
http://gate.iitm.ac.in/
