Date of Online Examination: 29-01-2012 (Sunday) Date of Offline Examination: 12-02-2012 (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 Bengaluru
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 2012 lies with Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, designated as the Organising Institute for GATE 2012 .
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.
What is New in GATE 2012?
Application Process:
In GATE 2012, candidates need to register and fill the application ONLINE only by accessing the zonal GATE websites of IISc and seven IITs. The application process is complete only when a print out of the filled ONLINE application with the candidate's signature and a good quality photo affixed in the appropriate place is received by the respective GATE office along with necessary documents, if any, on or before 24 October 2011. Please note that sale of application forms through banks and GATE office counters has been discontinued.
Downloadable Admit Card:
Sending Admit cards by post has been discontinued from this year. Admit cards can only be downloaded from the zonal GATE websites from 2nd January 2012. Bring the admit card to the test center along with at least one original (not photocopied / scanned copy) and valid (not expired) photo identification.
ONLINE examination in two additional papers:
In GATE 2011, the papers with codes GG, TF, AE and MN had ONLINE examination. In GATE 2012, two additional papers, AR and AG, will also have ONLINE examination. The ONLINE examination will be conducted in two sessions on Sunday, January 29, 2012.
Forenoon session (09:00 hrs to 12:00 hrs): AR, GG and TF.
Afternoon session (14:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs): AE, AG and MN.
Numerical answer type questions in ONLINE papers:
In the ONLINE papers (AE, AG, AR, GG, MN and TF), the question paper will consist of questions of multiple choice type and 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. The number of numerical answer type questions may vary between 5 and 10 in each question paper.
Pre-final year students:
Pre-final year students are not eligible to write GATE 2012. For details, refer to eligibility for GATE examination.
Important Dates
| Commencement of Online Application submission | Monday | 12 September 2011 (00:00 Hrs) |
| Last date for Submission of Online Application (website closure) | Monday | 17 October 2011 (23:00 Hrs) |
| Last date for the receipt of printed version of ONLINE Application at the respective zonal GATE Office | Monday | 24 October 2011 |
| Zonal GATE website display of final list of registered candidates, choices of test paper and examination city | Friday | 09 December 2011 |
| Availability of admit card on zonal GATE websites | Monday | 02 January 2012 |
| GATE 2012 Online Examination for Papers: AR, GG and TF | Sunday | 29 January 2012 (09:00 Hrs to 12:00 Hrs) |
| GATE 2012 Online Examination Papers: AE, AG and MN | Sunday | 29 January 2012 (14:00 Hrs to 17:00 Hrs) |
| GATE 2012 Offline Examination Papers: BT, CE, CH, CS, ME, PH and PI | Sunday | 12 February 2012 (09:00 Hrs to 12:00 Hrs) |
| GATE 2012 Offline Examination Papers: CY, EC, EE, IN, MA, MT, XE and XL | Sunday | 12 February 2012 (14:00 Hrs to 17:00 Hrs) |
| Announcement of results | Thursday | 15 March 2012 (10:00 Hrs) |
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