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On 15th March 2009.

Yes, you are permitted to change your centre and/or paper. However, you must send your written request along with a demand draft of Rs.400/- for every centre/paper change to the Chairman, GATE office in the zone of your first choice examination city before 31st December 2007.

You will receive your admit card before 31st January 2009.

Generally, you will be allotted from among centres within the examination city of your first choice. Only in cases where it becomes difficult to accomodate you in the examination city of your first choice, will your second choice be activated.

The status of your application will be put up on the gate website. Click on the link "app status" and follow the instructions. Generally, your application status will be put up within two working days on receipt of your BDS cum application form

The signature should be within the bounding lines of the box provided on the BDS cum application form. Keep in mind that the signature is your identification. As a general guide line you could use the signature that you use in banks and official documents.

At the bottom of the Demand Draft, the 9 digit number to the right side of the Demand draft number is the Bank Id or the MICR number.

After procuring the demand draft for the GATE 2009 examination fee, go to the link "online application submission" on the GATE website. Register yourself with a login name, password and email id. After providing the required data, you will be able to print out the online application form. Afix your photograph and sign at the appropriate places on the online application form. Include the online application form and the demand draft and send the Duly filled-in Application Form with appropriate enclosures must be sent by Registered or Speed post to the Chairman, GATE of the Zone, the website of which has been used for making ONLINE registration on or before Wednesday, October 29, 2008. OR It can be handed over personal to respective Zonal GATE Office.

You can submit the offline application by personally handing it over at the counters of the zonal GATE offices or Send it to the Chairman of the zonal GATE office by speed or registered post only on or before Wednesday, October 29, 2008

You can make the fee payment either by the offline process or by the online process. For the offline process, you make your payment either by cash at the respective banks in each zone or by demand draft sent to the zonal GATE offices by speed or registered post. For the online process, the candidates must obtain a Demand Draft, drawn on any nationalized bank in favor of Chairman of the corresponding zonal GATE Office, the website of which the candidate wishes to submit online Application. For more details, go to the link "How to apply" on the GATE website.

Many students think that they should some how answer all the questions and try to do lottery and put answers , they think that as there is 0.25 negative marks if they by chance make a correct guess one out of 4 questions also still they will get +0.25 but your probabilities will fail pals .

To get into any of the NIT you should try to score a percentile above 90. Generally NITS accept candidates with GATE percentiles between 85-95. If you manage to score above 95 you have a chance to get admission in IITS. Though this time percentiles may go higher due to recession.

The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an All-India Examination conducted by the seven Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on behalf of the National Coordinating Board - GATE, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India.

You have do finished your banchelor degree in engineering.

GATE is usually held on the second Sunday of February every year. Candidates will be required to appear in a single paper of three hours duration. The examination will be held on second Sunday of February from 0930 to 1230 hrs.

Candidates can submit Application Form in two different modes : OFFLINE and ONLINE. OFFLINE ONLINE Application fee General & OBC Rs. 1000 Application fee General & OBC Rs. 900 SC/ST/PD Rs. 500 SC/ST/PD Rs. 400

We do not have the deadlines for GATE 2010. However the deadlines for GATE 2009 have been given below for a tentative idea about the deadlines. 1) Sale of information brochure and offline application forms 22nd September 2008 Monday 2) Online application form submission 22nd September 2008 Monday Last date of issue of Information Brochure and Application forms: 1) by post from GATE Offices 17th October 2008 Friday 2) at bank counters 24th October 2008 Friday 3) at GATE office counters 29th October 2008 Wednesday Last date for: 1) Online application form submission (website closure) 24th October 2008 Friday 2) Receipt of completed Online/Offline Application Form at respective zonal GATE Office 29th October 2008 Wednesday Date of the examination 08th February 2009 Sunday Announcement of results 15th March 2009 Sunday

GATE question papers for the following streams are available with us: · ECE · CS · ME · EE · IT visit our website www.onestopgate.com

The question papers can be discussed at our forums. The “www.onestopgate.com” link is provided beside the “download link” on the “Previous years question papers” page.

Gate 2010 pattern will be of objective type with a total of 60 questions to be answered in total time of 3 hours.

Question paper bearing codes, AR, CE, CH, CS,CY, EC, EE, IN, MA, ME, MN, MT, PH, PI ,PY, TF Q.1 to Q.20 : Will carry one mark each (sub-total 20 marks) -1/3 mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. Q.21 to Q.50 : Will carry two marks each (sub-total 60 marks) -2/3 mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. Q.51 through Q.56 (3 pairs) will be common data questions. Each question will carry two marks - 2/3 mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. Question pairs (Q.57, Q.58) and (Q.59, Q.60) will be linked answer questions. The answer to the second question of the last two pairs will depend on the answer to the first question of the pair. If the first question in the linked pair is wrongly answered or is un-attempted, then the answer to the second question in the pair will not be evaluated. Each question will carry two marks -There will be negative marks only for wrong answer to the first question of the linked answer question pair i.e. for Q.57 and Q.59, 2/3 mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. There is no negative marking for Q.58 and Q.60.

Individual Weightage analysis of different topics in different years of GATE may be made available to our subscribed candidates. However, it is not a part of our package.

Apart from the model test papers in the package offered, we are not committed to providing you any Model Test papers. We may provide some question papers for download.

You can get questions papers as well as books, kindly check the website www.onestopgate.com for details.

GATE Scorecard The GATE 2009 scorecard will consist of actual marks obtained by the candidate, the GATE Score, Percentile Score and All India Rank (AIR). Scorecard will be sent only to the qualified candidates. No information will be sent to candidates who are not qualified. GATE scorecard is valid for ONE YEAR ONLY. Additional scorecards (up to a maximum of two) will be issued only once on request and on payment of Rs 300 per scorecard. Such requests should reach the Organizing Chairman, GATE 2009, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247 667 before August 31, 2009 together with a bank draft for the amount mentioned as above in favour of Chairman GATE, IIT Roorkee, payable at Roorkee. These scorecards will be labeled as Additional Scorecard -1 and Additional Scorecard - 2. GATE Score The GATE score, awarded in the range of 0 to 1000 reflects the candidates academic ability and will be based on his/her performance in GATE 2009 and the performances of all candidates who appeared in GATE in the last four years 2006-2009. Candidates with the same GATE score from different GATE papers and/or years can be considered to have the same performance level.

GATE Score = 1000/100{ag+sg(m-a)/s)} 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 2009 s: standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE 2009 ag: average (global) of marks of all candidates who appeared across all papers and years 2006-2009 sg: standard deviation (global) of marks of all candidates who appeared across all papers and years 2006- 2009 The maximum score can be 1000.

The percentile score of a candidate indicates the percentage of candidates who appeared in the same paper and scored less marks than him/her. It is calculated as follows: If N is the total number of candidates appearing in a paper, then the percentile score P is given as, P = (number of candidates who have scored less marks than the candidate / N) x 100

A typical qualitative interpretation of the GATE SCORE, for example, can be as follows: Ability Level GATE Score Range Outstanding 800 to 1000 Excellent 675 to 800 Very good 550 to 675 Good 425 to 550 Above average 300 to 425 Average 100 to 300 Below average Below 100 e. The evaluation of the ORS is carried out by a computerized process using scanning machines, with utmost care. Requests for revaluation of the answer script and re-totaling of marks will not be entertained. f. The GATE result and particulars of the qualified candidates will be made available to interested organizations (educational institutions, R and D laboratories, industries etc.) in India and abroad based on written request by the organization and on payment. Details can be obtained from GATE Chairmen of IITs / IISc.

GATE 2009 results were announced on 15.3.2009 at 1000 hrs. at GATE offices of IITs / IISc. It is also available on their website.

IISc Bangalore http://www.gate.iisc.ernet.in/ IIT Bombay http://www.iitb.ac.in/gate IIT Delhi http://www.iitd.ernet.in/ IIT Guwahati http://www.iitg.ernet.in/ IIT Kanpur http://www.iitk.ac.in/ IIT Kharagpur http://www.iitkgp.ernet.in/~gate IIT Madras http://gate.iitm.ac.in/ IIT Roorkee http://www.iitr.ac.in/gate

The registration-cum-application fee for offline applications in 2009 was Rs.1000/- for General & OBC candidates and Rs.500/- for SC/ST/PD candidates. The fee for online application was Rs.900/- for General & OBC candidates and Rs. 400/- for SC/ST candidates. The registration fee is not refundable and the application form is not transferable.

Please refer to our website www.onestopgate.com for online resources. We update our online resources as and when we come across them over the internet.

Honestly, No. Tutorials and coaching may give you the training, but will lack direction unless supported by an TarGATE. We are keeping track of our competition. Though most of the coaching centers provide a Test Series, they are not upto the mark in terms of quality, content and feedback. GATE Forum is the only institute with a wide database of students from over 30 cities across the country. A Test Series provides you with feedback on the areas of improvement and improvisation on strategy to tackle the exam in a more efficient guy.

The fees details of various institutes can be found on their websites.

We are still updating our database and we do not have the complete information right now. You can help by filling in our questionnaire, in case you cleared the exam, or you can send our form to some of your friends/seniors who have cleared it and help us.

The solutions are already available in the market, and GATE Forum does not want to come up with yet another solutions. Instead we provide you with a forum where you can discuss GATE papers with other students who are preparing for GATE. This will help you get different approaches to the solution of controversial questions.

Please refer their website where it is given in detail.

* GATE 2010 will be conducted by IIT Guwahati. * The pattern is set to change again from the previous pattern.(55 questions, 100 marks now). * GATE Score will be valid for two years. Third year students can now give the exam and the score will be valid for next year as well, when they pass out of their engineering exam. * 3rd year will also be allowed to give the exam yet again. * GATE 2010 - Pharmacy still remains unincluded in GATE Exam.

You need to understand the syllabus. You need to be thorough with your subject matter. Before, during and after your Post Graduate study, you need to keep reading materials related to your field of study. You also need to improve your memory, your writing skills and the confidence with which you attempt the examination itself.