GATE 2012 Notification | GATE 2012 Application Forms | GATE 2012 Important Dates

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GATE 2012 Notification | GATE 2012 Application Forms | GATE 2012 Important Dates

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering – GATE 2012
Date of Online Examination
Date of Offline Examination
Sale of Application Form / Online Application commences

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 2011 Syllabus, Exam Pattern and Previous Papers

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